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There exists a concept called "moral injury", where you know what the right thing to do is, but are prevented from doing it by circumstances outside your control. Those who suffer moral injury are at high risk of developing stress injuries from them and there is potential for PTSD as a result of a bad enough moral injury, or cumulative moral injuries.

For the sake of their careers, wellbeing and longevity I believe these residents are making the right decisions. I can't imagine how hard it would be having to turn someone away who required medical attention because the alternative is be criminally charged. You want to talk about moral injuries? There they are.

Good. I know the majority of their poor and minority community population isn't complicit in the abortion ban but the only way the south will change is when they lose all their young, minority, women, and educated populations.

Well you got me. They found a way to make the healthcare system even shittier.

conservative states lag in education, healthcare, financial stability... and they choose to make it worse constantly. why would any critically-thinking human want to voluntarily move to one of these redneck hellholes?

Turns out doctors prefer helping people, providing needed medical care, and being adaquately trained. They don't like being thrown in jail. And they want access to obstetrics procedures like abortions for themselves or their loved ones when needed.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn't stay in Arizona.

But that uncertainty has also bled into the world of medical education, forcing some new doctors to factor state abortion laws into their decisions about where to begin their careers.

Notably, the AAMC's findings illuminate the broader problems that abortion bans can create for a state's medical community, particularly in an era of provider shortages: The organization tracked a larger decrease in interest in residencies in states with abortion restrictions not only among those in specialties most likely to treat pregnant patients, like OB-GYNs and emergency room doctors, but also among aspiring doctors in other specialties.

"People don't want to go to a place where evidence-based practice and human rights in general are curtailed," said Beverly Gray, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University School of Medicine.

Gray said she worries that even though Duke is a highly sought training destination for medical residents, the abortion ban "impacts whether we have the best and brightest coming to North Carolina."

After attending medical school in Tennessee, which has adopted one of the most sweeping abortion bans in the U.S., Hannah Light-Olson will start her OB-GYN residency at the University of California San Francisco this summer.

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