The main entrance to the hospital flew open and the paramedics rushed in pushing along a gurney, on which was lying a young woman in a dressing gown with a heavily distended abdomen, groaning and moaning loudly. The junior doctor sat by the reception desk jumped to their assistance and ran along with the gurney as it was pushed along the long white corridors.
‘Is she ectopic, not fully dilated? How far apart are her contractions?’ the junior fired questions at the paramedics anxious to project an impression of professionalism.
