The Maternal Instinct

I work in an outpatient setting as a physician assistant at an ambulatory care center. I help see roughly 10-15 patients each day with my attendings in a large office setting. When Governor Cuomo initiated the lockdown of New York, we restricted patients from coming to the office. We canceled all in-office visits and procedures and offered telemedicine visits instead. My attendings had a lot of video visits, and I had mostly phone call visits. These visits allowed the patients to continue to have care so they would not have to resort to going to the emergency room. At this time, I was only around 4.5 weeks pregnant — I had just recently found out. Only my husband and two close girlfriends knew about my pregnancy…