Dr. Vonda Wright
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would be told that technology is not okay.
Well, I don't know the real statistics, but I'm sure they exist.
But in my experience as a high-capacity, high-stress, not sleeping for 11 or 22 years, I have seen it a lot.
And it happened to me.
And when I had mine, I was in training.
And A, I didn't want to call my attending and tell them because he was a man.
And I didn't think I could take any time off.
Same.
I went back the next day.
I would have gone back the same day, but I could barely move.
I was running labor and delivery at night.
So I thinkβ
Hopefully, part of this international conversation about women's health, not just gynecological health, but health in general, will give women grace.
Because there's no way that I should have been expected to go back to an orthopedic surgery residency the day after I lost a child.
Or, frankly, I don't know what your experiences were, but in my generation of doctors, and I'm sure it happens everywhere, I went back to work less than five weeks after delivering a child.
And I think other European countries have it right.
And I think support can come in a lot of ways, but...
the financial burden to a large corporation of having a stopgap childcare at work.
So maybe if you're not gonna offer full childcare, because you're getting a lot of productivity out of women if they know their children are on campus and can go at lunchtime.
But if you're not willing to do that, if you have a stopgap where instead of calling your attending or one day my nanny didn't show up and I had to find some way,