The worst thing you can see in the ER

August 22, 2007

A miscarriage gets to this ER physician:

Miscarriages, however, are an exception. Everytime I pull a fetus from a woman’s cervix, I feel a little lightheaded and get a pit in my stomach. And this over an amorphous blob of tissue, the typical miscarriage occurring far too early to appear human.

(via The Physician Executive)



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