Tag: the rewards of obstetrics

• 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 […]

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  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

• In Praise of Painted Toenails

  I went to a celebration last night, an acclamation of an event so unique and yet so common as to defy -almost- the need to single it out and frame it in the usual infinite regress of hyperbole it inevitably invokes: a birth. I have to admit that I enjoy birth, although as an obstetrician my perspective is necessarily more […]

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  March 9, 2013

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  Celebration of Life, Delivery of a baby, medical perspective, the rewards of obstetrics, women’s issues