http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/05/worrying-about-miscarriage-while.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/05/worrying-about-miscarriage-while.html#comment-91386 Reality Rounds Sat, 16 May 2009 01:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/05/worrying-about-a-miscarriage-while-performing-a-liver-transplant.html#comment-91386 What a great story. I think that being a mother makes you more human. You start to relate to patients as your own child, or spouse, or as yourself. Working mothers are always conflicted about the time they spend away from their children, and the time they spend away from work. This is exaggerated with high stress careers such as medicine. I can imagine the anxiety Dr. Chen went through when she thought she was miscarrying. Even though it was a much smaller scale, I caught a baby of a mom who had untreated tertiary syphilis. She was an ER walk-in so no one knew it at the time. I was 8 weeks pregnant and terrified when I found out. Like Dr. Chen I kept on working, and put my own fears aside to take care of a strangers sick baby. In a nutshell I love my job (as a nurse) and I love being a mom. They are not mutually exclusive. What a great story. I think that being a mother makes you more human. You start to relate to patients as your own child, or spouse, or as yourself. Working mothers are always conflicted about the time they spend away from their children, and the time they spend away from work. This is exaggerated with high stress careers such as medicine. I can imagine the anxiety Dr. Chen went through when she thought she was miscarrying. Even though it was a much smaller scale, I caught a baby of a mom who had untreated tertiary syphilis. She was an ER walk-in so no one knew it at the time. I was 8 weeks pregnant and terrified when I found out. Like Dr. Chen I kept on working, and put my own fears aside to take care of a strangers sick baby. In a nutshell I love my job (as a nurse) and I love being a mom. They are not mutually exclusive.

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