With a growing population and many doctors aging out of practice, Florida is doing what it can to attract physicians. Hospitals, meanwhile, are coming up with their own creative approaches to filling the need.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t worried about whether Donald Trump can win Florida. The Republican governor, who was once a challenger to Trump’s nomination, practically guaranteed that the Sunshine State would go to the former president during a speech Wednesday at the Florida GOP delegation breakfast at the Republican National Convention.

REPLAY: Watch Gov. DeSantis’ full speech to the Florida GOP delegation in the video player above

What DeSantis is worried about, however, are two amendments to the state constitution that will be on the ballot in November.

Amendment 3 would legalize recreational marijuana in Florida and Amendment 4 would remove abortion restrictions up to 24 weeks.

Currently, Florida has legalized medical marijuana and abortion is restricted to 6 weeks, before many people know they are pregnant.

DeSantis said the abortion amendment “is wrong.”

“That is something that we have to defeat,” he told the room of Republican leaders from his state. “It’s never the wrong time to just do what’s right.”

DeSantis spent more time arguing against the recreational marijuana amendment, saying similar laws in other states have not delivered on promises of decreased drug trafficking and increased public safety.

“We’ve seen it in practice in a lot of these places. It hasn’t delivered what they said it was going to deliver,” DeSantis said. “It’s not good for quality of life.”

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DeSantis also expressed concern that the way Amendment 3 is written, restrictions put in the constitution for medical marijuana would be stripped away.

“It’s going to affect quality of life, even if you have no interest in it,” he said.

The governor also pointed to what he called “corporate protectionism” language in the amendment, which he said is backed by a single company — Trulieve — that already does medical marijuana business in Florida.

In general, DeSantis called the ballot process for amending Florida’s constitution “a farce” because voters see only an approved summary and not the text of the actual amendment.

“Imagine having to vote on one of the amendments to the federal constitution and not knowing what the text was,” DeSantis said.

He urged the Florida delegation to “get engaged” on the amendments when they return home from the convention.

“A lot of voters don’t pay close attention to this. There’s going to be a lot of advertising on it,” DeSantis said. “I think if Republicans are united on these, I don’t think there’s any way they could get to 60%.”

In Florida, amendments on the ballot must be approved by 60% of voters or more to become part of the constitution.

MIAMI – A Florida woman needed emergency surgery after she was attacked by an alligator while swimming near her home.

Rachél Thompson, who still needs to stay off her feet, said it could have been a lot worse.

“Earlier this month, I’ve heard a lot of these stories and I’ve heard a lot of tragic stories, lost lives, lost limbs,” she said.

Thompson lives in Temple Terrace, near Tampa. On July 4th, just after seven in the morning, she finished a run and went into her backyard for a dip in the Hillsborough River.

“I’m basically standing in shallow water and I look into the dark water and out of nowhere appear the ripples of a giant alligator head,” she said.

The gator attacked her, biting her leg. Thompson said she punched it in its snout.

“The thought came to my mind ‘This is your last move and the next is his, next to roll you’ and I just screamed and I pried as hard as I could,” she said.

She eventually got away, pulling herself up onto a dock. A licensed trapper removed the alligator from the river, it weighed more than 400 pounds and measured 10 feet – eight inches. The gator was euthanized.

Thompson was taken to the hospital where she spent three days after her surgery.

“None of the major nerves were severed. One clean fracture to the fibula, the small bone,” she said.

Thompson is expected to make a full recovery.

“I have a lot of scars and it’s amazing the more that you get in life, the more you realize people don’t pick up on them, they don’t notice them. I think this one might be different. I think this one might be a bit more noticeable,” she said.

State wildlife officials say serious injuries caused by alligators are rare in Florida. They urge people to never feed an alligator, not only is it dangerous, it’s illegal.