Christine Henneberg
@chennebergmd.bsky.social
Writer & Women's Health physician. // Novel: "I Trust Her Completely" OUT NOW // https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Her-Completely-Christine-Henneberg/dp/B0F1Z9F3ZW
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I wrote about the use of Tylenol and other common drugs during pregnancy for @statnews.com
I wrote about the use of Tylenol and other common drugs during pregnancy for @statnews.com
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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September 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I wrote about the use of Tylenol and other common drugs during pregnancy for @statnews.com
I wrote about the use of Tylenol and other common drugs during pregnancy for @statnews.com
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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.
An Extraordinary Compromise of Medical Ethics
The tragic case of Adriana Smith underscores the pitfalls of fetal personhood.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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.
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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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June 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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.
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Had a terrific time writing about AI scribes for STAT ... and then recording this podcast with @thekibosch.bsky.social and Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli.
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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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May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Had a terrific time writing about AI scribes for STAT ... and then recording this podcast with @thekibosch.bsky.social and Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli.
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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.
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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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May 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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...
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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!
April 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
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Calluses | Laura Vater — Intima
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April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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"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
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By @rafleishman.bsky.social
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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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April 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"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
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By @rafleishman.bsky.social
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By: Christine Henneberg on Wednesday, April 2, 2025
By: Christine Henneberg on Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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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April 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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By: Christine Henneberg on Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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.
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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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April 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A long and devastating poem by the inimitable Laura Kolbe MD, in @yalereview.bsky.social -- worth reading to the last line. More than once.
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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.
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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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April 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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.
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How nice to be reviewed and recommended by Kirkus Reviews: "A thoughtful and elegant exploration of 21st-century motherhood."
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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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March 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How nice to be reviewed and recommended by Kirkus Reviews: "A thoughtful and elegant exploration of 21st-century motherhood."
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"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.
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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.
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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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March 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"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 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.
Excellent essay by @doclauravater.bsky.social in @statnews.com.
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"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.
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.
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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Kristina Kasparian ( @kristinakaspa.bsky.social ) on the complex guilt, shame, and grief of losing a baby carried by a surrogate
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December 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Kristina Kasparian ( @kristinakaspa.bsky.social ) on the complex guilt, shame, and grief of losing a baby carried by a surrogate
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“Your trauma comes back to you without your consent, a friend tells me.” - check out my piece just up on @electriclit.bsky.social
Rebecca Schankula on past traumas returning through miscarriage and childbirth electricliterature.com/im-the-woman-down-the-hall-screaming
I’m The Woman Down The Hall Screaming - Electric Literature
I could no longer sit up, and I wanted my mother
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January 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“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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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
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#NeoSky #MedSky #NICU #PedsSky #OBSky #RVU
Spoiler: Babies (& mothers) are invaluable
Greed, misogyny, and other pathologies of power place babies' lives at stake
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#NeoSky #MedSky #NICU #PedsSky #OBSky #RVU
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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January 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"The American abortion landscape, already fragmented, just got even more complicated."
NEW: A drug already marketed as a contraceptive could also serve, at a higher dose, as a medication for abortion—a potential substitute for mifepristone, subject to fewer restrictions, wherever the latter is banned or difficult to get. Patrick Adams reports:
A New Abortion Drug?
A double dose of an emergency-contraception pill may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"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.
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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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January 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
loved this profile of Betty Shamieh by @galbeckerman.bsky.social, which made me want to read the book and also be her friend.
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"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:
James Duesterberg on art, text, and writing in the age of generative AI:
Neither Governed nor Free - Boston Review
On art in the age of generative AI.
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January 23, 2024 at 8:19 PM
"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:
James Duesterberg on art, text, and writing in the age of generative AI:
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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/...
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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November 12, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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/...