I usually bring my own food with me for my 24-hour shifts in the hospital. You would think hospitals would have good, healthy food, but you would be wrong. This day was going to end up being one of those crazy story days when I would wish I was sitting on a beach in Hawaii. It’s 7 a.m. and I walk in to take over from my now-exhausted associate who had just had an all-nighter (which is nothing like the ones we enjoyed when we were younger). She leaves me with three people to round on and one soon to be going to the operating room (OR) for an ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic means “occurring in an abnormal position or in an unusual manner or form.” In an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg doesn’t develop in the womb, where it is supposed to, and most often develops in one of the …
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