Night Shift: Friday-Saturday

Another semi-slow night in L&D. I got to scrub in on one repeat C/S and the woman had a whole bunch of adhesions that complicated the delivery just a bit. Other than that...not much aside from H&Ps. We got started on rounds around 5:00 and worked all the way beyond checkout. One of the patients I saw was an African lady who spoke French (sadly I never learned OB French; I don't even know if a French interpreter exists at the hospital) and enough English to answer my questions, so before I left I wished her felicitations. Then Dr. S cracked us all up by saying that he's asked patients if they ever had a "bebe retardo" or something like it (mentally-retarded baby). It just sounded so wrong. XD