![]() ![]() When the nurse sets the rate of IV saline to a slow drip, Dr. The pressure of the fetal heart-rate monitor band across her midsection is unbearable (to be soon discovered because hemorrhaging blood has filled her abdomen), but a nurse scolds her, “Leave that on! What’s wrong with you?” (ch 1). The nurses focus on assessing the baby, ignoring her assertions that something is wrong with her. ![]() Besides, arguing would be futile - policy is sacrosanct at her institution. Barely conscious and in a wheelchair, she is powerless to argue. She senses that the problem is not obstetrical, but something else - something visceral.īut instead of being whisked into her hospital’s level 1 trauma center, she is triaged away by the security guard - because of a hospital policy dictating all patients six months gestation or higher go to Labor and Delivery. In the transcendent memoir “ In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope” pulmonary/critical care physician Rana Awdish is seven months pregnant when she develops sudden onset of excruciating abdominal pain. ![]()
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