My friend's sister is in her fourth year of obstetric residency. She works in a HUGE L&D ward whose patients are mainly low income inner city families and Hispanic immigrants.
Well, she was telling me about how they HAD to push these women through labor and delivery with drugs and interventions as quickly as possible to open up the rooms for other women in labor waiting in the hallways. Then she proceeded to tell me this story, which she and the other docs thought was absolutely hilarious:
A hispanic woman, who spoke no English, was pushing on her back for an hour and wasn't making any progress. She couldn't even feel the urge to push yet. A resident came in and THOUGHT he told her, in Spanish, that they would insert and use forceps if she didn't push that baby out quickly enough. Well, apparently, the spanish word for forceps is very similar to the word for "cockroaches". The resident had accidentally told the woman that they would insert cockroaches into her vagina if she did not get the baby out quickly enough. The poor woman panicked and gave birth in five minutes.
They still laugh over this hilarious misunderstanding and it went into the resident's yearbook as one of the most memorable events of their residency
Well, she was telling me about how they HAD to push these women through labor and delivery with drugs and interventions as quickly as possible to open up the rooms for other women in labor waiting in the hallways. Then she proceeded to tell me this story, which she and the other docs thought was absolutely hilarious:
A hispanic woman, who spoke no English, was pushing on her back for an hour and wasn't making any progress. She couldn't even feel the urge to push yet. A resident came in and THOUGHT he told her, in Spanish, that they would insert and use forceps if she didn't push that baby out quickly enough. Well, apparently, the spanish word for forceps is very similar to the word for "cockroaches". The resident had accidentally told the woman that they would insert cockroaches into her vagina if she did not get the baby out quickly enough. The poor woman panicked and gave birth in five minutes.
They still laugh over this hilarious misunderstanding and it went into the resident's yearbook as one of the most memorable events of their residency
I'm guessing they didn't apologize to her after they realized their error.
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