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Sep
One of my fondest memories as a medical student was the period spent, when doing our obstetric block in 1973/74. About six to ten of us had to be resident in the old maternity hospital of Leeds General Infirmary, which at that time was an ancient separate building on sloping Hyde Terrace, whilst we did our mandatory number of deliveries. Although old and, as has since been found out, riddled with asbestos & demolished in 2001, there was something almost homely about this period spent with a group of other students, most of whom I had previously been unfamiliar with. We all had the same purpose to be there and it was our first experience of “being on call and resident”.
In my later career I did not always have such a good relationship with midwives (that is different story), but the group I crossed paths with during this time were special, friendly and helpful - as indeed were all the doctors and my co-students. I have observed that in a variety of walks of life that what made the experience enriching was far more due to one’s colleagues at the time rather than the nature of the work itself.
The very first patient I was allotted was an unmarried teenager. Time was spent beforehand getting to know our patients and their medical history, but apart from her age and marital status there was nothing at all unusual about this girl. A couple of nights later I delivered her baby without event. The next morning I went to visit her and she was facing the ward in a single bed at the end of a traditional “Florence Nightingale” ward of a double row of beds. As I approached her she said “It’s not fair; it’s just not fair of them to put me in the bed under the clock”. I didn’t understand at all until she explained that there was a Yorkshire superstition that if you were put in a bed under a clock in a hospital, you would be readmitted with the same “complaint” within 12 months.
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