Elizabeth W. Patton

Elizabeth Patton, M.D. is an obstetrician-gynecologist interested in patient communication and understanding of risk in the OG/GYN setting. She is originally from Harvard, Massachusetts and earned a BA in Comparative Religion and the History of Science at Harvard University. She subsequently completed a Masters of Philosophy in Theology at Cambridge University in the UK. After working for a couple of years while completing her post-baccalaureate premedical requirements, she attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School, obtaining her medical degree. She recently completed a four year obstetrics and gynecology residency at Northwestern in Chicago, where she had the opportunity to work at both Northwestern Prentice Women’s Hospital and Stroger Hospital of Cook County.


Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor speaks to the media after Zubik v. Burwell, an appeal brought by Christian groups demanding full exemption from the requirement to provide insurance covering contraception under the ACA.

TV news stories about birth control quote politicians and priests more often than medical experts

Health

Fewer than one-third of stories on the nightly news programs for ABC, CBS and NBC between January 2010 and July 2014 featured any medical information at all.