On Call

So there are Obstetricians and Pediatricians on call for every shift. Unfortunately they do not all seem to take this as seriously as I had expected. Sometimes the midwives do not bother to even call the OB’s for things like fetal distress because they don’t think they will come. Apparently there have been many incidents like not answering their phones at all or answering and then saying they won’t come because they are too drunk on kava. Last week a 28 week baby was born prematurely and the pediatrician took 3 hours to come…