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A typical day

Office days: 20 to 30 patients for prenatal visits, pap tests, heavy periods, menopause, fertility questions. Surgery days: hysterectomies and laparoscopies from 8 a.m. On call: you live on the labour floor for 24 hours, managing several labours at once, and when a baby's heart rate drops you have minutes to decide on a caesarean. Then you sleep, if you can.