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Pregnancy tests are routine before many surgical procedures. But Dobbs has raised the stakes of a positive result
Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and while it wasn’t an emergency, she needed urgent surgery.
Just before they headed to the operating room, however, the patient’s pregnancy test came back unexpectedly positive.
