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A typical day

Rounds at 6:30am on the women who delivered overnight. Then the operating room for a scheduled hysterectomy, gown on by 7:45. Clinic from noon: a first pregnancy scan, a contraception visit, a woman with bleeding who is frightened about what it means. At 4pm someone on the labor ward goes from normal to an emergency cesarean and you are in theatre in eight minutes. You finish notes at 7pm, and if you are on call you go back in at 2am for a delivery that will not wait.