The View from the Clinic
Patrice D'Amato has spent 38 years as a practicing nurse in both clinical and academic settings with a focus on adult medical surgical, critical care, gerontology, and women's health. After practicing as a women's health nurse practitioner in abortion care more than 20 years ago, she left clinical practice to teach nursing at the university level, where she became an award-winning educator at a top-ranked school of nursing. She now works part time as a registered nurse in an abortion-related field.
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Show Notes:
The View from the Clinic- One nurse’s journey in abortion care.
It started in#metoo…
“This is a married man who doesn’t even know what happens in his own bathroom, and he’s making decisions with such authority”
“Would you like to be a fly on the wall at the abortion clinic, come with me”
“We have to tell you what’s going on”
“Normalizes to see it from my perspective because I see it all”
“It’s not all like you”
“Opens up your own judgment”
“It’s not even what’s right and what’s wrong; it’s what is”
The Turnaway Study
“The women know”
“You can go into that dark place and heal”
“The stress of the process is an energy opener”
Feelings and meatballs- LOL
“We sanitize things” in healthcare “we sanitize a very complex thing”
“There are risks to emptying your uterus” and there are very good reasons to do it
“We are in a culture where we believe we should have no pain”
We can stand powerfully in our sadness
“Younger women are not putting up with this”
“The ones who are strong and have the resources have to carry this through”
If you have it use your privilege to heal- you will change the world by doing that
“What’s our hope? It’s that each individual person does their healing- it’s the only way”
“Expand your understanding of the world and the people in it”
Healthcare providers are humans
Fiction allows you to tell the truth and frame it in a way that people can get it
Perspective shifts and black bean brownies
“The writer of fiction is telling their truth”
“It takes a level of falling to your knees to say that you shit on the toilet just like everybody else”
“You’re not separate, you are part of the cesspool that is life”
There’s no such thing as a good reason- it’s just a reason
“Reframe it as a universal story”
“Hold the people who are not empowered and slowly, steadily, and calmly keep expanding us to move to a place where everyone is able to do the work”
Understand your good reasons- do the work AND it’s okay if you can’t
“It’s all about curiosity”
“Keep listening and keep getting your hands on free shit”
RCRC- religious coalition for reproductive choice
