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David Hackney
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Maternal Fetal Medicine physician in Ohio, non-fiction writer


My book “Impossible Choices” is available for pre-order:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054706/impossible-choices/
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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · Jul 29
Ohio friends, excited for my upcoming book event at the beautiful Loganberry Books and honored to be joined by both Planned Parenthood and Cleveland’s independent PRETERM clinic. #ReproSky
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Dr. David Hackney: IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES with Planned Parenthood + Preterm
Dr David Hackney launches his new book IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES: A Physician's Guide to High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
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Lively conversation with friend and colleague @drkristin4wi.bsky.social about our field of obstetrics after Dobbs. Thanks for having me on your show!

#Medsky #ReproSky

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High-Risk Pregnancy After Roe: Dr. David Hackney on the Impossible Choices Doctors Face
Podcast Episode · The Dr. Kristin Lyerly Show · September 4 · 49m
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September 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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For the short Goodreads blog on influences for “Impossible Choices”, my book about obstetrics after Dobbs, my 5th & final entry is Camus’ The Plague & how this classic novel relates to physicians under abortion bans today.

Blog link in first comment #nonfiction #BookSky #ReproSky
September 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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For the Goodreads blog on influences for “Impossible Choices”, my book about obstetrics after Dobbs, the third book is:

Next: Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café”
Blog link in first comment #nonfiction #BookSky
August 31, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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I’ve started a Goodreads blog on influences for “Impossible Choices”, my book about obstetrics after Dobbs. Not being a writer originally, I didn’t initially know how to begin, so turned to these books.

Next up: Dr. Karkowsky’s “High Risk”
Blog link in first comment #nonfiction #BookSky
August 26, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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I’ve started a Goodreads blog on influences for “Impossible Choices”, my book about obstetrics after Dobbs.

Not being a writer originally, I didn’t initially know how to begin, so turned to these books.

1st: Dr. Danielle Ofri’s “What Doctors Feel”
Blog link in first comment #nonfiction #booksky
August 25, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Dr. David Hackney practices maternal-fetal medicine in Cleveland. His new book is "Impossible Choices: A Physician's Guidance on High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe." He talks about the tragic impact of abortion bans on patients with high-risk pregnancies.
'Impossible Choices': A Cleveland doctor offers guidance on high-risk pregnancies after Dobbs
Dr. David Hackney says he wants the public to know about the impact abortion bans have had on maternal-fetal medicine specialists and what they mean for patients.
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August 18, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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This week, two books published on the exact same day...

With the exact same title...

Through the exact same distributor.

Mine explores the harrowing landscape of high-risk obstetrics post-Dobbs

The other is a wacky activity book for kids

I hope they do not get mixed up

#BookSky
August 21, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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New essay for @medpagetoday.com, outlining the common frustration of numerous MFMs and Obs.
@gfriedman.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
#Medsky

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Opinion | The Doctors Who 'Don't See Pregnant Patients'
Neither pregnancy nor abortion are siloed
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August 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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For launch day, was thrilled to have this excerpt in the MIT Press Reader. I particularly loved the graphic of the judicial hammer fashioned from a home test. #MedSky

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I Know the Cost of Indecision in Abortion Care. Dobbs Made It Worse.
Maternal-fetal medicine doctors should not be forced to choose between saving patients’ lives and protecting themselves from criminal jeopardy.
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August 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Journalist Amy Eddings has been on the front lines of Ohio’s reproductive rights story from the beginning. Thus I was honored by her deep reading of “Impossible Choices” and our interview on Ideastream, Ohio Public Radio. #ReproSky #MedSky

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'Impossible Choices': A Cleveland doctor offers guidance on high-risk pregnancies after Dobbs
Dr. David Hackney says he wants the public to know about the impact abortion bans have had on maternal-fetal medicine specialists and what they mean for patients.
www.ideastream.org
August 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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I also wish it didn't need to exist, though if needed then glad to have written it.

#Medsky #ReproSky #nonfiction
ethicselizabeth.bsky.social Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · Aug 5
What a cool book to find in my mailbox!

Wish it didn’t have to be written, but glad @davidnhackney.bsky.social is the one to write it right here from Ohio.
The cover of Dr David Hackney’s new book called Impossoble Choices: a physician’s guidance on high risk pregnancy in a world without Roe
August 5, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Ohio friends, excited for my upcoming book event at the beautiful Loganberry Books and honored to be joined by both Planned Parenthood and Cleveland’s independent PRETERM clinic. #ReproSky
www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-david-h...
Dr. David Hackney: IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES with Planned Parenthood + Preterm
Dr David Hackney launches his new book IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES: A Physician's Guide to High-Risk Pregnancy in a World Without Roe
www.eventbrite.com
July 29, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Threats definitely still remain
July 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Boston-area colleagues and friends: Harvard Book Store is having an event for “Impossible Choices” on August 18th, with Dr Cloe Zera, MFM Division Chief at Beth Israel, and I in conversation about high-risk obstetrics following Dobbs.

#Medsky #ReproSky

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Dr. David N. Hackney at Harvard Book Store
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June 27, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Kudos to the teams in Indiana who developed a responsible video about human reproduction that is consistent with many states’ “Baby Olivia” laws without being, well, “Baby Olivia”

#Medsky #ReproSky

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HGD Videos - Health Care Education & Training
Health Care Education and Training (HCET) developed the Human Growth and Development During Pregnancy and Early Fetal Development Through Ultrasounds videos
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April 20, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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Familiarity with these new(-ish) laws is also a physician responsibility; necessary for us to appropriately advocate for our patients

#Medsky

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3 Years After a Landmark Law, Some Pregnant Workers Still Don’t Get Basic Accommodations
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April 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Excellent editorial - the same arguments administrators use for replacing healthcare workers with AI are easily also applied to themselves.

#Medsky
medpagetoday.com MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · Apr 6
"But if AI is only transformative for other people's jobs, then this is not a technology argument. It is a power argument wearing a technology argument's clothes."

Read the #OpEd from radiologist and entrepreneur Waseem Ullah, MD, at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/120627
Opinion | Replace Yourself With AI, CEO Katz
Let's test out this new tech where the downside is a bad spreadsheet, not a missed cancer
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April 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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This is the work of our medical professional organizations

Everyone in healthcare needs to be supporting our medical professional organizations right now

#Medsky

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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
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March 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Obstetricians and other healthcare workers:

This should never happen.

It should never happen again at this hospital, it should never happen at any hospital

Full stop

#Medsky #Reprosky

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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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March 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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#Medsky
medpagetoday.com MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · Mar 10
A machine learning model for prediction of preeclampsia risk using routinely collected data was feasible among pregnancies in late gestation, according to a retrospective cohort study.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/120208
Model Could Sound the Alarm on Preeclampsia Risk in Late Pregnancy
How predictions would impact clinical decision-making is another question, expert says
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March 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Tylenol Prescriptions for pregnant patients fell quickly after the White House press conference…but then have recovered, likely because of the tenacious refutation from experts and professional organizations.

We can make a difference

#Medsky

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Tylenol Orders Down, Leucovorin Scripts Up After Trump's Unproven Claims
White House messaging appeared to quickly influence medical practice
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March 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Only a few days on Goodreads, release is months away, cover art, blurbs and reviews pending

But there appear to be 4 people I don’t know, someone in the world, who already want to read the book, so that’s a start.
March 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Under this administration, there are both reproductive restrictions and decreasing access to prenatal care.

www.salon.com/2026/03/01/e...
Early pregnancy care declines despite Trump’s pro-birth agenda - Salon.com
As the Trump admin urges folks to have more kids, new data shows early pregnancy care moving in the wrong direction
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March 6, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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Given everything going on right now, everyone needs to be a member of their medical professional organization

Everyone

#MedSky

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Ask Your Colleagues If They Are Part of Their Professional Organizations
Years ago, I was sitting in the conference room of a medical professional organization as we awaited the demonstration of a new website. On a large...
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March 4, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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March 3, 2026 at 1:09 AM