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\n The Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Iowa has seen a sharp increase in births since a neighboring rural hospital stopped delivering babies. For more than a year, the hospital has been trying to hire two doctors who can do obstetrics.
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Jonna Quinn was initially thrilled when she got her first job after residency, working as an OB-GYN in Mason City, Iowa. It was just an hour down the road from her hometown of West Bend, where she grew up on a farm.<\/p>\n

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But the hospital started restricting certain birth control options and fertility treatments based on its affiliation <\/a>with the Catholic church, she said. At the same time, her unit was becoming increasingly short-staffed<\/a> as other obstetricians left and retired.<\/p>\n

At one point, Quinn said she was seeing up to 50 patients a day.<\/p>\n

“That is twice what a normal OB-GYN will see in a day,” she said. “I knew I was going to miss something, because there’s no way somebody can function at that level.”<\/p>\n