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• Shocked, Bewildered and Angry

  over 5 years ago

  Shocked, bewildered and angry, Dr. Amy Nakajima pored over her medical notes, trying to coax from them some sense of the bloody chaos she'd just experienced.

  Earlier in the day, a healthy and expectant young mother had come in for a routine delivery at the Saskatchewan hospital where Nakajima worked. It was 2001 and Nakajima was just 14 months into her practice as an obstetrician-gynecologist.

  Nakajima had been called in to assist just as the woman was pushing because the baby's heart rate seemed to be dipping. A vacuum procedure went well, a healthy baby was delivered, but the woman... Continue reading