Lots of pretty normal and straightforward labors and births yesterday/last night. I caught four babies total :) It was my first call this month, due to being on vacation most of last week.
I was aggravated though on the way home from the first round. They have placed these stupid photo enforcement zones all over the interstates I use to get to the hospital and I got 'flashed' on the way home last night. One of the nurses suggested sending them a copy of my badge and explaining I was on call for births...I'm thinking "yeah that would be great but I traveling away from the hospital". Might be hard to get that to fly. The whole photo thing really is a pain in the butt for me. In the middle of the night, if I need to get to the hospital fast I really put the pedal to the medal :p Now I can't do that. Hope women can just cross their legs and hold it in.
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uggg!!! I think sometimes exceptions have to be made for docs/midwives on their way in to the hospital. When we had an emergent case in our OR on L&D, we had a specialist driving 100 MPH to get there. It was literally a life and death situation, and we needed him desperately. I don't know what would have happened if he was delayed by being pulled over.
I've also worked with an OB who was pulled over, when I called her in for an urgent situation that could have resulted in damage/death if it wasn't intervened upon in a quick fashion. This was a small hospital, and no other doctors were in house. The OB doc was not only pulled over, but put in handcuffs, and roughed up when she tried to explain the situation. I kept paging her, wondering why she wasn't calling back. An HOUR later, she is escorted in to L&D with the cops. I tell the cops that I need her NOW for her patient, and they release her from the cuffs. Things worked out fine, eventually, for the patient and her baby, but the doc still was charged with multiple things relating to her being pulled over (speeding, evading, resisting). It made the newspapers too.
My mouth is hanging open right now....
I did a quick newspaper follow up on the charges against her....they dropped everything except a careless driving citation. But, there was NO mention in the news about the excessive force that was used against her by the police. She (and I) highly suspect there was some profiling done, due to the obvious foreign sound of her name. They were very rough with her, slamming her against the police car, rough with the handcuffs. All I can say is THANK GOODNESS things turned out ok for the mom and baby.
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