After delivery, I had read somewhere on the interwebz that the cool moms were receiving ‘push presents.’ Gifts from their spouse, relatives, friends, what have you, for I don’t know what exactly, pushing a human through your vagina? Isn’t this what women have been doing since the beginning of time. Why did that deserve a… Read More »
It all started at my 33-week check-up. My OB measured my fundal height as 31 centimeters; not the expected 33. That was only the beginning. Who would have thought that measuring from the top of my uterus to my pubic bone would prompt an ultrasound which detected that our baby was breech? Even as a… Read More »
“Let us see your palms,” my attending said to our patient.“You, too,” he said to me.I was in my internal medicine rotation in medical school and my attending was showing us physical exam findings in a patient with cirrhosis.“Why are this patient’s palms red?” The attending asked.Estrogen, I was thinking.“Oh. Yours are also red,” he… Read More »