Almost half of the nation’s OB-GYN residency programs are in states that have or will ban abortions, which will create crucial gaps in medical education, Dr. Kavita Patel wrote in 2022.
Dr. Kavita Patel, a primary care physician in Washington, D.C., is an MSNBC columnist and an NBC News/MSNBC contributor.
She served in the Obama administration as director of policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the White House. A Brookings Institution nonresident fellow, she is the former managing director of clinical transformation at Brookings' Center for Health Policy.
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