Health Care
When a woman arrived to give birth at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colo., on a Monday evening in early June, she went into labor and Erin Schmitt, DO, the attending OB-GYN, helped deliver her baby within 15 minutes—about as straightforward a birth as Schmitt was likely to see. But an hour later, a nurse called Schmitt to say the woman was bleeding. Soon after, Schmitt was dealing with one of the most massive hemorrhages she had ever seen in her 10 years as a physician.
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