Editor's Note: Rita Charon is chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Determining an accurate latency period is difficult, according to Lyall A. Gorenstein, a thoracic surgeon and lung cancer expert at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
The study suggests that the Dobbs decision affected not just abortion access, but “decisions women are making about contraception as well,” said Xiao Xu, the study’s lead author.
“It really was a catalytic event,” Ian Lipkin, now the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, told USA TODAY.
“The debates over scope of practice are fierce . . . and in part, it’s prompted by shortages,” says Michael Sparer, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
Editor's Note: Helen Ouyang, author of this Opinion piece, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, director of the Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia University, suggested a minimum competency standard would not be unreasonable.
Editor's Note: Helen Ouyang, author of this article, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
