Author: Naomi Stotland, MD

The chief resident stepped forward and pressed, hard, above the mother’s pubic bone. With luck, that would dislodge the baby’s shoulder. No luck.

As I listened to my resident counsel the patient, I asked myself if we were leaving out part of the story. Where you work does matter.

Certain people experience foods, particularly high-fat sweet foods, as a psychoactive, or mind-altering, substance.