Will Bynum

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273 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2022 last heard Oct 2022

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The Nocturnists · 1 - Shame in Medicine: Hello, Shame · 13 Sep 2022 podcast

Almost like you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop and all hell to break loose.

And it did.

I hear a lot of commotion on the other end of the hallway and I stick my head out the door and see a woman clearly in a lot of distress being quickly shuffled into a room.

And a minute later, the obstetrician sticks her head out the door and calls for me to come to the room to get involved in her care.

And I enter a room that is tense.

There are multiple nurses, there's an obstetrician, there's a pediatrics team, and clearly there's something major going on.

And despite the chaos, it seems like everyone knows what they're doing.

Except for me, I'm feeling insecure as I had the entire rotation.

I'm feeling a little panicked at being involved in this situation without a lot of skills.

The obstetrician pulls me over to the patient and tells me that she's having a placental abruption, which is where the patient's blood supply to the baby has been disrupted and the baby is in distress.

the urgency in the room was to deliver it as quickly as possible.

And so we did that using a vacuum assist device, which is where you attach a small cup to the baby's head and the person delivering her gently, but deliberately pulls the baby out of the mother's body.

Almost in a daze, as if I was watching myself from across the room, I found myself at the foot of the bed, pulling the baby out of the mom's body

and praying silently that everything would go okay.

And it didn't.

I delivered the baby successfully, thank God.

But in the process, I caused an injury to the mother.

One of those events that you live in fear of as a resident, as a physician,

where you and everyone around you, and there were a lot of people in the room, know that something has just gone terribly wrong.

And it's almost like time stops.

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