During a March hearing, Dr. Jennifer Chin described a mother of two who was forced to pile her family into the car for an overnight drive to Seattle because no hospital in Spokane would treat her after she began miscarrying. Her doctors in Spokane couldn’t intervene until the fetus’s heart stopped, despite the mother’s rising risk of serious illness.
Chin, a Seattle physician who, like Iriye, spoke in support of the bill for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said doctors “often” are unable to provide treatment mandated by their professional standards because of hospital rules.
“It’s important that we, as physicians, are able to treat patients as we
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