Abortion Access Through Direct Primary Care
Dr. Kaul is a local Bergen County Doctor operating in a DPC (Direct Primary Care) Facility. With extensive training in Integrative Medicine through both the University of Arizona’s Integrative Medicine in Residency curriculum and through the Institute for Functional Medicine, Dr. Kaul has created an approach that joins western and eastern medical philosophies.
Learn more on her website:
https://my3wellness.com/
Show Notes:
1:43 Ruchi’s introduction
3:18 DPC- Direct Primary Care, Ruchi’s practice
5:57 “If it’s important to you, then it’s important to get an answer.”
17:03 “The very first patient I saw when I opened my practice was a medication abortion”
19:44 “I can do it how I want it, which also means I can do it how my patients want it”
21:49 A medication abortion and a procedure “the efficacy of both is equal” if you make price an issue it’s not based on personal preference
22:35 “the biggest part of the procedure is not the five minute procedure, it’s the conversation that happens before, the conversation that happens after, and any follow up that’s needed”
22:55 Which kind of abortion is better? “Whichever one is better for you”
23:28 “Making sure the patient is sure that this is a choice that she wants to make”
25:44 “We can handle that; do you want to be pregnant?”
26:19 “Even my patients don’t know that I offer this until it comes up”
27:51 “I touch them; I hold their hand… they let their guard down”
28:46 “I know my patients”
29:36 “... you have to be the calm in their storm, because they have so much going on”
31:31 “The way that I show up in the room is that I imagine that it’s me sitting in that bed, and I think of how I would want a doctor to show up”
34:12 “You are paying me for my clinical advice… it’s your life, you get to choose”
35:22 “I go with the patient so they’re not stressed”
37:41 Helping doctors open this kind of practice (DPC)
38:55 “Patients want somebody who knows them, they want somebody who cares about them”
41:01 “We have the time, we have that space”
42:41 “We’ve got you… when you walk out the door it’s not over”
45:14 “Patients want to be taken care of, they want agency”
46:58 “When I just focus on me I am 100%, I know this is exactly what I want”
47:00 “Can I undo this?... Let’s go back to how you feel, in you.”
52:16 “I don’t require that people be members”
54:17 “Most abortion providers want to get to a point where we’re not doing this all the time; we want to get to a point where there’s easy access to birth control”
55:25 Rebecca Gomperts Vessel Trailer
57:06 “The US has a huge need… people are not getting the care they require”
59:18 “This is not a morning after pill”
59:40 “People don’t even know this is available; access is so limited”
1:00:58 “We’ve been able to serve thousands of women”
1:03:01 “This is a safe thing; women are not dumb”
1:05:06 “People are working all over the world to show the safety and efficacy”
1:05:35 “The thoughts that we’re indoctrinated with… it’s very religion specific, who has problems with what.”
1:07:09 “It’s the way that we decide to judge what people are doing”...”all judgement is self-judgement… that really comes up in abortion care”
1:08:02 “It’s so freeing to know that all of those thoughts are optional… everybody’s truth is something different”
