How women doctors in Portland quietly emerged as a political force

In 2016, when Dr. T. Domi Le was in a progressive physician women’s Facebook group, she started to sense a troubling complacency taking hold. Specifically, many of the liberal physicians were treating the race like just another election. Le, a Portland gastroenterologist, and a few other members saw the potential for authoritarianism on the horizon but “were brushed off as alarmists and being hysterical,” she said. So Le and six like-minded women physicians broke off and formed another private…