'Emergencies': before it was better to abort

As a

graduate of medical series —I learned what lupus was by watching

, a chondrosarcoma in

or Duchenne muscular dystrophy in

nothing has fixed my summer more than HBO Max has brought back the mythical 15!

seasons

in its catalogue.

So here I am in my spare time, mired in pneumothorax, lacerations and aneurysms;

with the false belief that he would be able to endotracheally intubate a stranger from seeing Dr. Greene practice it so much in that university hospital in Chicago.

I wonder what good Mark Greene would be today if he performed ectopic pregnancy terminations like he did in his ER in 1994. Because at County General he performed them without hesitation.

An ectopic pregnancy is one that develops outside the uterus.

It can be fatal for the mother if it is carried to term, so when it is detected, it is intervened to interrupt it before the structure breaks and the patient bleeds internally.

It's not like that in the US anymore.

This summer, at Central Texas Hospital — one of the most restrictive states on reproductive rights after the repeal of

— a doctor was instructed not to treat him until a rupture occurred, he denounced in a letter from a group of doctors alarmed at the legal panorama that awaits them.

No one thought to stop Dr. Greene in the last century and it distressed me anticipating that perhaps Meredith Gray will face her hospital's team of lawyers in the fall of 2022 to save a patient.

Another fiction surpassed by reality that threatens our bodies.

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