Dr Rana Awdish, an intensive care doctor, was seven months pregnant when she lost her baby and nearly died herself as a result of catastrophic bleeding, caused by the rupture of a benign tumour. Dr. Rana Awdish (pictured with her family) is seeking changes in medical care after her own experience as an intensive care patient on the ward she worked onThe pain was excruciating and unsustainable. I’d just come off a demanding month working in the intensive care unit (ICU), spending every fourth night on-call — had I lapsed into a microsleep while driving? But implicit in this was that there remained one ‘best’ choice, and if the patient didn’t select that choice, perhaps you hadn’t done the best possible job selling it. I was observing a resident placing a large intravenous line in a very ill and unconscious pregnant patient.

Source: Daily Mail January 22, 2018 22:22 UTC