All right, you're ready to hold?

That's Dr. Stephanie Arnold.

She opened Seven Hills Family Medicine in downtown Richmond, Virginia two years ago.

NPR's Selina Seven-Stuffin and Alyssa Nadwerni visited the clinic.

Dr Arnold works with a small team, a registered nurse and several medical assistants.

I'm doing chronic condition management via telehealth in five minutes.

At 10 a.m. I'm doing a follow-up on diabetes and then I'm three aspiration abortion appointments.

That's three

Asperation abortion appointments.

That's three procedural abortion appointments alongside all the other appointments.

A little bit of everything today, which is very typical for family medicine.

In the doctor's office there is a follow-up for a patient with GI issues.

So your lounge came back and honestly are like looking pretty good.

There was no evidence of Celiac to explain.

Then another patient comes in for gender affirming care gearing up to start testosterone.

But I think I mentioned that there's like kind of two extremes on the dosing approach.

Fast track or the scenic route. We're going in the middle.

Yeah.

All right.

Providing all sorts of care, gender affirming care, and all aspects of reproductive health care,

including abortion, are part of the philosophy of Dr. Arnold's clinic.

She started her practice a few months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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