Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: pregnant doctor

  • Doctoring while pregnant

    Katie TaylorOakland, California, United States “Are you sexually active?”  “No, but you are,” a patient, one day in early spring, responds. Her timing is good, and the point is obvious. I am twenty weeks pregnant and showing, belly at two-thirds basketball.  When I tell an older male patient I’m pregnant, he congratulates me, tells me…