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Christine Henneberg

@chennebergmd.bsky.social
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Writer & Women's Health physician. // Novel: "I Trust Her Completely" OUT NOW // www.amazon.com/Trust-Her-Completely…

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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/t... I wrote about the use of Tylenol and other common drugs during pregnancy for @statnews.com
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Tylenol in pregnancy: a question of safety or control?
“The dearth of appropriate research — and guidance — around medication use in pregnancy disguises concern for the fetus as concern for the mother,” a doctor writes.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/06/2025
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.
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An Extraordinary Compromise of Medical Ethics
The tragic case of Adriana Smith underscores the pitfalls of fetal personhood.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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The Adriana Smith Case Was an Ethical Disaster
Georgia’s fetal-personhood law pushed doctors into an extraordinarily troubling situation.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
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The doctor is in. So is their AI
No one goes to medical school because they want to type quickly while listening to patients talk. But that’s what practicing medicine means for many
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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...
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An S.F. abortion doctor delivers a new voice in reproductive rights in debut novel
Christine Henneberg’s “I Trust Her Completely” explores abortion, queer parenthood and life in the Bay Area.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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!
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Calluses | Laura Vater — Intima
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"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...
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I Was Caring For A Patient With Down Syndrome. A Fellow Doctor’s 8-Word Remark Left Me Stunned.
“We stood silently facing each other in the hospital corridor, until I heard the little boy’s Tonka truck clank to the floor.”
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Feed: "STAT" By: Christine Henneberg on Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Opinion: Every doctor is a writer: On the end of note-writing and meaning-making in medicine
“As a doctor who is very much a writer, I feel a sense of dread and even grief at this new option (or pressure) to outsource my note-writing to AI,” writes Christine Henneberg.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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...
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Laura Kolbe: “Knowledge”
A poem by Laura Kolbe: “Windbreak of dark hair on the ear-tops of my baby. Faint spade / of dark down, shining // between shoulder blades. Little second…
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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...
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Every doctor is a writer: On the end of note-writing and meaning-making in medicine
“As a doctor who is very much a writer, I feel a sense of dread and even grief at this new option (or pressure) to outsource my note-writing to AI,” writes Christine Henneberg.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
How nice to be reviewed and recommended by Kirkus Reviews: "A thoughtful and elegant exploration of 21st-century motherhood." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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I TRUST HER COMPLETELY | Kirkus Reviews
After decades of solitude, a San Francisco author’s life—and her ambitions—change when she reconnects with a college friend in Henneberg’s novel.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"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-...
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An abortion doctor goes to work on Ash Wednesday
How would our myths and our origin stories be different if they were written by women?
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/p...
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How physician exhaustion kills compassion — and nurtures shame
“A patient’s family chose comfort care, and my first thought was, ‘One less.’”: How lack of sleep shreds doctors’ empathy.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"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.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 19/12/2024
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
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Rebecca Schankula @rlschankula.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“Your trauma comes back to you without your consent, a friend tells me.” - check out my piece just up on @electriclit.bsky.social
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Rachel Fleishman @rafleishman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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
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What Is the Relative Value of a Baby? | NEJM
As she cares for a newborn who’s struggling to breathe, a neonatologist contemplates how politics and power structures affect the availability of critical perinatal services in the United States.
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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New Data on Ulipristal Acetate and Misoprostol for Medication Abortion — A Step Forward?
In the current issue of NEJM Evidence, Winikoff et al. report on an early phase study in humans of ulipristal acetate used for medication abortion.1 The researchers found that ulipristal acetate 60...
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"The American abortion landscape, already fragmented, just got even more complicated."
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A Proof-of-Concept Study of Ulipristal Acetate for Early Medication Abortion (in NEJM Evidence)
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Christine Henneberg @chennebergmd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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...
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A Palestinian American ‘Sex and the City’
Betty Shamieh’s debut novel is a rebellious rom-com.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
"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:
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Neither Governed nor Free - Boston Review
On art in the age of generative AI.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 12/11/2024
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/...
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The Return of Trump—III | Christine Henneberg, John Washington, Suzanne Schneider, Aryeh Neier, E. Tammy Kim, and Andrew O’Hagan
Christine Henneberg • John Washington • Suzanne Schneider • Aryeh Neier • E. Tammy Kim • Andrew O’Hagan Christine Henneberg After the Supreme Court
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