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Author Interview: “What Does Our Tolerance of Poor Management of Patients’ Pain Have to Do With Reimbursement Inequity for Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures?”

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Nishita Pondugula and Dr Louise P. King join Ethics Talk to discuss their article, coauthored with Parmida Maghsoudlou and Dr Vardit Ravitsky: “What Does Our Tolerance of Poor Management of Patients’ Pain Have to Do With Reimbursement Inequity for Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures?”

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Nishita Pondugula, MS is a fourth-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. She will be applying to a residency in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN). She obtained her master’s in bioethics from Harvard Medical School. Her research efforts have included clinical OB/GYN projects related to endometriosis, trial of labor after cesarean, and pregnancy outcomes, as well as health equity work focused on the needs of formerly incarcerated populations.

Louise P. King, MD, JD is an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon within the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr King completed her JD at Tulane University School of Law and her MD at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and her fellowship in minimally invasive surgery with Dr Camran Nezhat at Stanford University. Her areas of interest in medical ethics focus on questions of informed decision-making and assisted reproduction, as well as on equitable access to advanced gynecologic surgery.

Recorded December 5, 2024.

 

Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Interviewees disclosed no conflicts of interest.

Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.