Journal 2 –
Part of my job here is to go with the doctors to do hospital rounds in
This week our schedule got a bit wacky due to a delivery on Thursday. We went to the hospital to admit the young woman on Wednesday night and stayed in the on-call rooms expecting to deliver early in the morning. But by nine she was only at 4cm so we headed back to Cathlamet to see a few patients. The call to get back to the hospital came about two hours later. I’d never seen a delivery before so it was a pretty amazing experience. I didn’t really do much except help stitch her up afterward but it was still memorable and I got to see my first Babinski sign. After finishing up there we headed back to the office and performed a vasectomy (not on the father). Quite a contrast in procedures for one day.
Interestingly, on the same day as the delivery the county made the final decision to stop doing Ob. at the end of this year. Last year they payed $60,000 in Ob. malpractice for the two physicians and only brought in $20,000 of reimbursement. Now women in
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