www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/t... I wrote about the use of Tylenol and other common drugs during pregnancy for @statnews.com

In the tragic case of Adriana Smith, legal protections for fetuses seem to have pushed doctors into an extraordinary compromise of medical ethics, Christine Henneberg writes.

I wrote about Adriana Smith and reproductive autonomy for @theatlantic.com, and how Georgia's fetal personhood law forced doctors into an extraordinary compromise of medical ethics. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Had a terrific time writing about AI scribes for STAT ... and then recording this podcast with @thekibosch.bsky.social and Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli. www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/a... via @statnews.com

Thanks to Lauren Harvey and the @sfchronicle.com for featuring I TRUST HER COMPLETELY, and the writing of other abortion providers and researchers, @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social and Diana Green Foster. Order the book here: www.amazon.com/Trust-Her-Co... datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/christ...

Upcoming events for I TRUST HER COMPLETELY! FREE at Napa Bookmine and @booksonthepark.bsky.social. For tickets to the #HappyWomenDinners event, email jill [at] happywomendinners [dot] com. A ticket gets you the novel, the memoir, and a delicious brunch with other fabulous women!

Gorgeous essay by Laura Vater (@doclauravater.bsky.social) in The Intima (@theintima.bsky.social): human, open, yet composed and contained--just like the best, most compassionate doctor. www.theintima.org/calluses-lau...

"To label Becky as someone with disabilities felt like labeling the morning sky as a single color — an overly simplistic categorization of a nuanced person whose moods and gifts and antics shifted as quickly as the sun rises." By @rafleishman.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/down-s...

Feed: "STAT" By: Christine Henneberg on Wednesday, April 2, 2025

A long and devastating poem by the inimitable Laura Kolbe MD, in @yalereview.bsky.social -- worth reading to the last line. More than once. yalereview.org/article/laur...

My first piece in @statnews.com Opinion: on note-writing and the meaning-making process in medicine--another sacrifice on the altar of efficiency, to the gods of the bottom line. www.statnews.com/2025/04/02/a...

How nice to be reviewed and recommended by Kirkus Reviews: "A thoughtful and elegant exploration of 21st-century motherhood." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

"An #Abortion Doctor Goes to Work on #AshWednesday" I wrote this a few years ago. It pretty well describes what my day will look like today. I’m so grateful for the staff I work with, and for the women who trust me with their choices and their care. chenneberg.medium.com/an-abortion-...

"I carried the shame of this experience for years. Only when I started speaking openly did other physicians share how exhaustion depleted their empathy, and their guilt was as immense as it was familiar." Excellent essay by @doclauravater.bsky.social in @statnews.com.

I heard this poem by @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social for the first time yesterday, right around Super Bowl kickoff time. It keeps echoing in my mind.

Kristina Kasparian ( @kristinakaspa.bsky.social ) on the complex guilt, shame, and grief of losing a baby carried by a surrogate electricliterature.com/i-am-the-other-in-mother

“Your trauma comes back to you without your consent, a friend tells me.” - check out my piece just up on @electriclit.bsky.social

With the heft of @nejm.org I ask a simple but subversive question: What is the Relative Value of a Baby? Spoiler: Babies (& mothers) are invaluable Greed, misogyny, and other pathologies of power place babies' lives at stake www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #NeoSky #MedSky #NICU #PedsSky #OBSky #RVU

"The American abortion landscape, already fragmented, just got even more complicated."

loved this profile of Betty Shamieh by @galbeckerman.bsky.social, which made me want to read the book and also be her friend. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"If words are magic, it’s unclear what role, exactly, people play. Why not dispense with them altogether?" James Duesterberg on art, text, and writing in the age of generative AI:

Christine Henneberg, @jbwashing.bsky.social, Suzanne Schneider, Aryeh Neier, E. Tammy Kim, and Andrew O’Hagan on the return of Trump www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...