‘One of the most powerful human experiences I’ve ever had’: A budding doctor’s first delivery
Second-year medical student Dom Russell says his experience on a rural placement changed his view of obstetrics.
“The baby’s head starts to come out and the midwife throws me a kidney dish with a needle and vial of synthetic oxytocin and says draw that up.”
“I’m a first-year medical student — we’re not really drawing up needles yet.
“I knew exactly how to do it, but in the heat of the moment I was shaking.”
Dom Russell said he was not expecting to deliver a baby during a two-week rural placement, organised by the NSW Rural Doctors Network (RDN).
