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June 2009, Vol 99, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 967-968
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.158691

LETTERS

PARADIGM SHIFT: MOVING TOWARD ACCESS IN EVERY OFFICE

Margaret E. Johnson Baylson, MD

Margaret E. Johnson Baylson is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She is also with Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, Philadelphia.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Margaret E. Johnson Baylson, MD, 3400 Spruce St, 2nd Floor, Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (e-mail: margaret.johnson@uphs.upenn.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Dehlendorf and Grumbach should be commended for their recent piece on medical liability insurance for abortion care in family medicine.1 Their work highlights that family medicine physicians are uniquely positioned to provide early abortion care to their patients. Medication abortion and first-trimester aspiration abortion are skills that family medicine physicians can easily incorporate into their practices as a service to their patients.

As mentioned by Dehlendorf and Grumbach, it is estimated that 44% of women have an abortion sometime during their life.2 This fact makes early abortion relevant to all primary care physicians, but especially to family medicine physicians, who . . . [Full Text]






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