These distressing issues can have an effect on women’s ability to work, their sexual and social relationships, and their mental health. But the issues that pushed health care workers to the picket line will remain. And although the strike at Kaiser will be the largest at a U.S. health care institution in history, with out overhauling the circumstances beneath which health care workers do their jobs, it undoubtedly won’t be the last. Dr. Spencer is an emergency doctor and professor of public health at Brown. He survived Ebola in 2014 after treating patients in Guinea and handled Covid-19 sufferers in …