What happens when a high-risk OB can't diagnose her own son?
Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty is a double board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist — a doctor trained to manage the most critical pregnancies imaginable. But when her two-year-old son Orion spiked a fever on a Caribbean vacation and his O2 sat dropped into the 70s, all that training couldn't stop her from feeling like a helpless mom.
In this raw and unforgettable episode of HuMed, Sarah shares the terrifying night she called 911 on a St. Martin island, fought for a chest X-ray in a foreign ER at 2am, and watched a jack-of-all-trades surgeon prepare to place a chest tube in her toddler — with no pediatric ventilator in sight.
This is the human side of medicine no one talks about.
Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty | Maternal-Fetal Medicine | @HealthyMamaDoc
Virtual consultations: Uma Health
In this episode:
The vacation that became a medical nightmare
Why even expert physicians miss signs in their own children
Practicing medicine in maternity care deserts
How a near-tragedy reordered her entire life
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