4 - Post-Roe America: Uprooted

The Nocturnists

Emily Silverman

Medicine, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Leilah Zahedi-Spung never planned to leave her life behind in Tennessee. But after Roe fell, she found herself having to make an impossible decision about the future of her career. In episode 4 of The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America, we examine how political events can upend clinicians' lives and communities.

Host & Co-creator: Ali Block, MD

Co-creator: Emily Silverman, MD

Contributors: Scott Dunn, MD; Zachary Halversen, MD; and Leilah Zahedi-Spung, MD

Find show notes, transcript, and more at https://thenocturnists.com/pra/4/uprooted. Follow @thenocturnists.

The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series was made possible in part by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.

The Nocturnists is supported by the California Medical Association, and people like you who have donated through our website and Patreon page.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. If you're enjoying Postro America, I wanted to tell you about another great podcast called Repros Fight Back.
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0:29.1	At the Nocturnist, we are careful to ensure that all stories comply with health care privacy laws.
0:34.3	Details may have been changed to ensure patient confidentiality.
0:38.6	All views expressed are those of the person speaking and not their employer. Welcome back to the nocturnists, post-row
0:44.4	America. I'm Dr. Ali Block. In March 2023, Sandpoint Idaho made national news for the first time
0:53.5	in its 125-year history.
0:55.9	A small hospital in North Idaho is getting national attention tonight after it announced late last week that it is closing its labor and delivery services.
1:03.9	Bonner General, Sandpoint's only hospital, and the only hospital for two counties in Idaho and surrounding communities in Montana and Washington,
1:15.5	cited multiple reasons for the closure. But one of the main contributing factors, they said,
1:16.6	was the Dobbs decision.
1:21.1	The hospital announced the closure of its labor and delivery services Friday. The hospital says it's struggling to retain staff because in part of Idaho's anti-abortion laws.
1:26.5	The community was thrown into disarray.
1:29.3	Everyone had a different opinion on the matter.
1:31.3	We Democrats raised the alarm every which way we could and said there's no health exception in this.
1:36.3	You're going to criminalize doctors and put them in an impossible situation for trying to save women's lives.
1:41.3	We knew eventually doctors were going to be leaving the state.
1:43.3	Today we start in Sandpoint, Idaho. What happens to a place when its clinicians are forced to leave?
1:49.7	What's it like to be pushed from your home because of your work? And what becomes of the
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