We need some basic definitions.
Ob-Gyn- obstetrics and gynecology. This is the branch of medicine that deals with female-type things. This may be pregnancy and babies, this may be cancer care, this may be menopause care. Basically from puberty until death, ob-gyn has it covered. This is where the babies are born. True, there are some very stressful parts because body parts develop cancer. But, on the whole, everyone loves babies, even if there is an issue with a birth that impacts the child, they are on the hot seat for lawsuits for 18 years. And sometimes more than that.
Desert- The Merriam-Webster definition is arid land usually with sparse vegetation; especially land that is very warm climate, which receives less than 25 centimeters of rainfall per year. I’ll do the math, 25 cm is roughly 10 inches. Of precipitation. In a year.
However, the Oxford Languages dictionary defines abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous. “we feel our public representatives have deserted us”. Huh, hold that thought.
What is an Ob-Gyn desert? This is where the ob-gyns have voluntarily left. Yes, all of them. They have gone for a variety of reasons, the biggest one being laws that do not let them practice to the best of their abilities, at the top of their license.
You know the ones I mean.
It’s like these doctors don’t want to torture the unborn or their parents.
Strange, I know.
But let’s return to the Oxford Languages definition. Perhaps the growing ob-gyn desert is because they have been betrayed by the political parties (mostly on the right) at every level of government.
I mean, they can take a hint.
And so they are leaving the states that want to prosecute them for providing needed care to patients at very vulnerable times in their lives.
It’s not like are slaves and can be FORCED to stay.
They are simply exerting their freedom not to be in a place where they can’t give care to patients who desperately need it. This is a big country, after all.
Maybe don’t make the ob-gyns torture the unborn and the females they have put in 4 years of undergraduate college, 4 years of medical school, 4 years of residency, and passing their board specialty exam.
Because they have options of where to live and where to practice.
You probably should’ve thought of that.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 