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Wednesday, December 01, 2004When I was a resident we had a woman who came into the hospital every couple of months or so claiming she was in labor with twins. Usually she'd show up in the emergency room and would be whisked up to labor and delivery. If the people working that night had never encountered her, they'd put on the fetal monitors and then get all worked up when they couldn't find a fetal heart beat. Then an emergency ultrasound would find no babies, and off she'd go to psychiatry. I'd take this story with a whopping grain of salt. UPDATE: From a reader: I once had a patient who had, due to surgery,one tube and one ovary, on opposite sides of the pelvis. She'd been told by lots of doctors, me being the final one, that she'd never get pregnant. Of course, she did; every year after that she gleefully sent me a birthday card--the little boy's birthday, that is. One of the happiest deliveries I ever had, back when I did OB. Of course, this kind of thing can happen. But I'm still suspicious of the woman's story. Especially since there's nothing but her word to back it up. A comment from her doctor would make it more believable. UPDATE II posted by Sydney on 12/01/2004 07:17:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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