It was around lunchtime on a rather slow day at the hospital. Some of the roads leading to the hospital had become impassable, due to the frequent mudslides that plague this area during the monsoon season. But the slow day was about to give way to a very challenging afternoon. “Have you heard the news?” Dr Sadichhya, one of our junior doctors, asked. “There’s a woman with an ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy which has implanted outside of the uterus) and a hemoglobin level of 6.5 who is bleeding and needs surgery.” No, I hadn’t heard the news. But clearly, she [...]
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