Monday 10 October 2011

still alive

Once, when I was a senior registrar, I removed a ten-week ectopic pregnancy from a Fallopian tube. The tiny foetus, about the size and colour of a cooked grain of rice, sat momentarily on the tip of my gloved right  index finger, surprisingly still alive.

Its heart was beating.

I didn't know what to do.

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