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Dr. Shefaali Sharma was just two patients into her day when a pregnant mother of two issued a startling request inside the exam room that made the Madison, Wisconsin, obstetrician-gynecologist “want to throw up.”
“‘I need you to pick me. I need you to choose me because I have two kids at home,’” Sharma recalled the pregnant patient in her third trimester telling her last Thursday.
Several patients later, Sharma said, a first-time mother also in her third trimester asked her virtually the same thing, describing her fears that any complications during her pregnancy might result in her unborn child’s life taking priority over her own.