The blind spot before the first prenatal visit
I trained as an obstetrician-gynecologist outside the United States. Years later, I found myself in a very different position: not as the clinician taking the history, but as a high-risk pregnant patient trying to enter a new prenatal care system after moving across states.
That experience changed the way I think about prenatal access.
In medicine, we often treat the first prenatal visit as the true beginning of care. That is when …
The blind spot before the first prenatal visit
