As part of every core rotation, students are required to write a brief reflection paper about their experiences. I wanted to write about a sentiment I revisited during my OB/Gyn rotation – my need to be needed.
Saturday morning marked the end of my week on gynecological oncology (“gyn-onc”). A colleague and I came in for morning rounds, got to leave by 10:30am, and I spent the rest of the day pseudo-studying. For the last two weeks of this rotation, I’ll be on benign gynecology alternating between…
On account of today being the earliest I’ve woken up since starting my rotations in January, I’ll write this post in segments throughout the day.
In the course of pregnancy, sometimes it becomes necessary to deliver a baby prior to the mother going into spontaneous labor. Indications for induction of labor (IOL) can include suspected fetal compromise, pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), premature rupture of membranes (PROM), and chorioamnionitis.
The People’s Community Health Center is a resident-run clinic which serves the various primary care needs for people in southwest Houston (80,000+ patients per year) – I’m spending my first week of gynecology here and loving it!
Having been the lucky OB student to get the last call night of the month, I stumbled out of the labor and delivery (L&D) wing and went straight down to McDonald’s to fuel myself with caffeine for the long commute home. I had finished obstetrics – a month that was…
Yesterday was my last shift of L&D, and it was an eventful week indeed. Waking up at 4 AM and getting home around 7:30 pm limited my exposure to… the sun… but hopefully I’ll be able to reset my internal clock over the weekend.
Well I’m back on the labor and delivery (L&D) service working from 6am to 6pm+ delivering babies, scrubbing in on C-sections and tubal ligations, talking to patients in labor, assessing fetal health in utero, etc. Gyn consult was fun last week, but I’m ecstatic to be back in the operating…
OB Intake is basically the “obstetric emergency room.” If patients are over a certain point in their pregnancy (late 1st trimester, or 2nd/3rd trimester), they’re moved from the main ER to be triaged by OB Intake. After being worked up, patients are typically sent to one of three places: 1.)…
My last day of L&D Night Week was a roller coaster – I got to vaginally deliver identical twins, scrubbed in on a straightforward tubal ligation, humiliated myself in front of the chief resident of anesthesiology, did another vaginal delivery and proceeded to help with triaging patients in OB Intake…