My Life as an OB-GYN: A Look Behind the Scenes

by Douglas Heritage

Overview

For most women, a visit to the OB-GYN is a dreaded experience. In a book that is as eye-opening as it is compelling, retired OB-GYN Douglas Edwin Heritage invites us to share the joy, humor, and tragedy of his 43-year career as a medical student, intern, resident, and physician in private practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620232613
Publisher:	Atlantic Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Douglas Edwin Heritage was born in New Jersey in 1948. He majored in pre-medicine at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he graduated in 1971 with High Honors and High Honors in Zoology. He was accepted at the Medical College of Virginia-Virginia Commonwealth University, which he attended from 1971 to 1975, graduating as a Doctor of Medicine. From 1975 through 1978, Heritage was a Resident in the Obstetrics and Gynecology program at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals. After finishing his residency, he practiced for one year with an established OBG group in Petersburg, Virginia. He left in 1979 to begin solo practice in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he practiced both obstetrics and gynecology until retirement in January of 2014. Heritage was Board Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1980 and made a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1981. During his time in practice, he received numerous awards from the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of Virginia. Dr. Heritage is now happily married to Katie Shaw, and they continue to reside in Prince William County, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Foreword 11

Introduction 13

Part 1 Getting There 15

Fader's 17

Growing Up 29

Don 33

University of Maryland 41

OCD Breakfast 47

The Dining Hall Bomb 51

Raiding the Naval Academy 55

Saved by President Nixon 61

A Thanksgiving Holiday 65

Part 2 Medical School 71

MCV, Friends, and Romance 73

Human Dissection 79

The Laughing Skull 85

David Hume 89

Dr. Odlid 93

Bloody Nose 99

The Fan 103

Bob Medland 111

Horror in the Vending Room 117

Grace Street 123

Two Faces of Death 127

Prolapsed Cord 133

Psychiatry 137

First Pelvic Exam 143

First Delivery 147

The Surgical Rotation 151

Plastic Surgery 155

A Big Mistake 161

Part 3 Internship and Residency 165

Folie à Deux 167

First Operation 173

Labor and Delivery 179

First Caesarean Section 185

Bones 189

Hysterectomies Above and Below 193

Harry Berdann 199

Curse and Abuse 203

Board Certification 209

Part 4 Private Practice 213

Katie 215

Eclampsia 219

Infertility 223

Two Patients with Twins 229

French Girl 235

Shoulder Dystocia 239

Ovarian Cyst 245

Ectopic Pregnancy 249

Circumcision 255

Placental Abruption 259

Endometriosis 265

Abnormal PAP 273

German Girl 277

Mary Boyd 281

Time to Quit 289

Appendix A Medical Terminology 293

Appendix B Tobacconist Terms 301

About the Author 303

Index 305