Aside from individual’s lacking access to healthcare, one of the biggest reasons medicine fails to achieve significant health outcomes is that we do not meet individuals where they are at nor do we fully appreciate what’s going on in their lives—not intentionally, per se, but overlooked none the less.

It’s been over two weeks since overturning Roe v Wade. And I’m just not willing to let it go. I don’t even have a uterus or ovaries. I will never carry a pregnancy to term. Yet I find myself thinking about the recent assault on women’s rights on a daily basis—a decision largely driven by personal and religious beliefs, party affiliations and biases.