"He only does them on Wednesdays." This is what my wife answered when I had asked, on a Thursday, how soon we could have a dilation and curettage (D&C). We had just been informed that my wife's pregnancy had come to an end, in the form of a miscarriage, an hour or so before. Overcome with grief, frustration and anger, one fact had escaped us when we received this news -- that my wife would have to go about her life over the next few days with our miscarried child still inside her, because our doctor only performed the D&Cs on Wednesday afternoons. I don't bring this up to be gruesome, but to highlight a huge divide in the thinking about miscarriages in our country. To some in the medical...
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