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- From: ashley@oar.net (Ashley Burns)
- Subject: Re: July deliveries/teaching hospitals (was Re: students/interns at delivery)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.181546.19099@oar.net>
- Organization: OARnet, Columbus, OH.
- References: <1993Jan22.070107.26558@netcom.com> <C19Eqt.3sB@acsu.buffalo.edu> <SKATZ.93Jan22103527@kariba.bbn.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:15:46 GMT
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- In article <SKATZ.93Jan22103527@kariba.bbn.com> skatz@bbn.com (Susan Katz) writes:
- >Most residencies start July 1st. Delivering a baby at a teaching
- >hospital in July can be interesting. A friend of mine had a 1st year
- >intern attempt to install an internal baby monitor. After a lot of
- >hassle (including reading a Intro OB text book in front of my friend!),
- >the resident declared that her gloves were the wrong size! That was
- >my friend's first kid. In hindsight she would have put a stop to that
- >resident's work when the text book popped out.
- >
- >I also had a baby in July. I found the residents to be wonderful, so
- >I was lucky. I did have one medical student visit me often during my
- >
- >Any more July 1st-year-resident stories?
-
- Yes, sort of. We delivered in July when the residents are new. In our
- delivery, which started off okay but ended up in a light epidural (and it
- being turned off in the middle of a 2.5 hour pushing--yuck) and then a vacuum
- extraction. The first vacuum extraction unit they brought in didn't work,
- so they brought in another unit. That was okay until the second unit didn't
- work, either, and one of the new residents started reading aloud the long
- directions. They ended up taking parts from the second unit to make the
- first unit work, reading the directions aloud, while I was there waiting
- and pushing with the epidural nearly worn off, knowing the baby couldn't
- come--UGH! But I suppose it was not especially the residents' fault; the
- ob and seemingly a lot of staff were there, too, trying to get everything
- together in short order. But having the residents around wondering what
- was going on added to the feeling that I would never deliver, and everything
- was chaotic.
-
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