Dr. Sarah Prager: It could not have come at a worse time, in the wake of the COVID pandemic when money is less, and energy is less, and burnout is high and that I think has very much contributed to the staffing shortages and all of the things that are making a lot of this harder. And then I will just say, and I know this has been true in different ways for my colleagues living in banned states too, but I felt like I had a whole other full time job added on top of my work as soon as Dobbs happened. And that was both for the advocacy work I had to start doing, the administrative burden of getting these other services, getting Telemedicine abortion going and working on the EPIC thing and more meetings than I’ve ever thought of in my life. Plus expanded clinical care, and it was exhausting. It was really exhausting. And it in the face of really, an existential dumpster fire – threat – to my specialty, if not in Washington state, then certainly nationally. So, that doesn’t feel as exhausting in this moment as it did for a while and it’s been – then, you don’t feel like you can say you’re tired because I’m able to still provide care to my patients, and I know so many of my colleagues can’t even do that or they’re having to move out of state in order to do that or all of these other insults and injuries that I don’t have to face in the same way.
