Summary of Dr. Willie Parker's Life's Work

By IRB Media

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#1 I had arrived in Honolulu the previous year, having accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Hawaii. I spent my days working as a supervising physician at the Queen Emma Clinic, an outpatient clinic for indigent people, including many native Hawaiians.

#2 I am an extrovert by temperament. I enjoy the company of others and am always seeking out novel experiences. I was professionally fulfilled as well. I had worked with Dr. Bruce Kessel, an eminent reproductive endocrinologist, when I was doing my residency in ob-gyn at the University of Cincinnati.

#3 The ob-gyns at the Queen Emma Clinic treated urinary tract infections, incontinence, yeast infections, and other common women’s illnesses. They also did abortions, as that was a nonissue in liberal Hawaii in the 1980s.

#4 As a young doctor, I made a promise to myself to uphold my professional commitment to caring for women. I would refer patients seeking abortion to other doctors who would provide them. But for me, providing abortion was wrong.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822511415

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Insights on Dr. Willie Parker's Lifes Work

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had arrived in Honolulu the previous year, having accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Hawaii. I spent my days working as a supervising physician at the Queen Emma Clinic, an outpatient clinic for indigent people, including many native Hawaiians.

#2

I am an extrovert by temperament. I enjoy the company of others and am always seeking out novel experiences. I was professionally fulfilled as well. I had worked with Dr. Bruce Kessel, an eminent reproductive endocrinologist, when I was doing my residency in ob-gyn at the University of Cincinnati.

#3

The ob-gyns at the Queen Emma Clinic treated urinary tract infections, incontinence, yeast infections, and other common women’s illnesses. They also did abortions, as that was a nonissue in liberal Hawaii in the 1980s.

#4

As a young doctor, I made a promise to myself to uphold my professional commitment to caring for women. I would refer patients seeking abortion to other doctors who would provide them. But for me, providing abortion was wrong.

#5

I was not yet in possession of the intellectual tools to unpack or query the fundamental sexism embedded in the Bible, so I simply followed the literalism