A surprise pregnancy in medical school
“You’re 27-and-a-half weeks pregnant.”
As I lay on the exam table, time froze.
How can this be? I wondered dazedly. I’m a second-year medical student. I’ve just completed a course in female reproduction and endocrinology. How could I have missed the signs?
I attribute my obliviousness to the surgery I’d gone through only months before: the removal of a 27-pound, mucus-filled ovarian cyst. My lack of menstrual periods was nothing new; they’d been …
