Tag: Fetal distress

• The Problem of Freedom

  The rough, shadowed texture of a log fallen across a meandering stream, the scattered sparkles of the water as it murmurs briefly to a rock it passes, the deep, barely moving green of the leafy tunnel that shrouds the gently dancing blue beneath -these are what I know of freedom: permission to imagine, permission to…

  gozzter

  September 9, 2015

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  abstract, Alison Gopnik, baby, baby’s movements, baby’s thoughts, due date, Fetal distress, Freedom, Non stress test, NST, permission, problem of freedom, Robert Frost, The Philosophical Baby, ultrasound, Voltaire

• Forget it?

  Memories are tricky things. Sometimes they’re not around when you want them, only to arrive later, when you don’t; sometimes they surround you, pester you, like wasps at a picnic. And other times you can’t find them at all no matter where you look. But the really tricky ones are those that never happened and…

  gozzter

  July 31, 2015

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  Brian Williams, Caesarian section, clanking forceps, delivery report, false memories, Fetal distress, fetal heart rate decelerations, forceps, incompetance, Iraq, malfeasance, medicolegal issues, memories, negligence, PTSD, retrospective falsification of memories, trial of forceps

• A night on call

  I got a thank you card the other day; someone had put it in my mailbox at the hospital.  I suppose it was nothing special, but it touched me: a name I didn’t recognize, an enclosed picture of a beautiful baby, and hand-written with unforgettable penmanship a heartfelt thanks that I had helped the couple in their moment of joy and unexpected…

  gozzter

  December 13, 2013

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  appreciation, Fetal distress, life on obstetrical call, obstetrical emergencies, Role of an obstetrician, the rewards of obstetrics, Why I’m still an obstetrician