Tubal ligation and widowhood: Navigating toxic requests
“Oh, poor thing!” exclaimed Dr. S, shaking her head in empathy.
“It is very sad,” I chimed in.
Lalita lay on the operating table. A sterile green cloth hung perpendicularly, separating her, the patient, from Dr. S and me, the operating surgeons.
She was undergoing her first cesarean section in view of fetal distress.
It was indeed very sad. Not the cesarean part, but the fact that her husband had passed away when she …
Tubal ligation and widowhood: Navigating toxic requests
