Long COVID patients in California are waiting five or six months to see a specialist, if they can find one still accepting new patients. Clinics across the state are full.
AB 3119 cleared both chambers of the California Legislature without a single dissenting vote and was signed into law. The California Medical Board has not publicly discussed it since. Their position: doctors should choose their own continuing education. For patients who cannot work, cannot sleep, and cannot find a trained provider, that position has a cost.
In this episode, we sit down with Susanna Zaraysky, a tech writer who spent months navigating a California healthcare system without enough providers trained to treat her, alongside Dr. Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, who examines what it would take to close the gap.
