Morgan Snow and Stephen Snow

00:04 Hi, my name is Steve snow and what position the made 68 years old today is November 24th, 2021. And we are in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

00:20 And I'm Morgan snow. I am 28 years old. Today's date is November. 24th 2021. We are in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, and I am Steve's daughter.

00:35 I'm very excited to chat with you today. Okay, so I know, you know this but you have just retired after a very long and successful career as an OBGYN and I am just starting my career in medicine as a medical student. So I have quite a long road ahead. And so, I'm hoping we could spend today talking about the lessons, you've learned in medicine. And what advice do you have? For me? I think medicine is always changing, always evolving. Always, surprising. And I know we have a couple of stories. I think that might help.

01:29 Clarify that.

01:32 That sounds great. You won't tell me your first story.

01:37 Sure.

01:39 The first story is about a lady who came to labor and delivery when I was teaching and she saw the residence and she was full term and Contracting.

01:54 And they had trouble finding the baby's heartbeat.

01:59 The senior resident on call did an ultrasound and he didn't see our pic.

02:06 So, he told the family that the baby was going to be so bored.

02:12 And she would have to labor and delivery baby who is not going to be alive. Obviously, devastating news to a family mother who carried the baby for nine months.

02:27 Being attending on labor and delivery. I had to come to the delivery.

02:34 And we had monitored during her during labor because there was nothing tomorrow. There's no heartbeat monitor.

02:43 So she was Champs, you did very well.

02:47 And she pushed, and

02:51 The baby came out, the way babies always do and it was screaming and it was

02:58 Very mad, very pink, and obviously very much alive.

03:05 The resident who did the ultrasound have to be a very fundamentalist religious John man.

03:14 And he threw up his hands and said, hallelujah. It's a miracle.

03:19 He actually thought the baby came back from?

03:25 The rest of us were a little skeptical of that, but obviously, the family was thrilled beyond belief was not upset with her as an adult for misdiagnosing, putting them 2 hours, apart egg. And of course, the labor and delivery nurse is nicknamed, the baby Lazareth because it came back from that. So,

03:51 Yeah, that's one of the things about medicine that is.

03:57 Surprising surprises happen. All the time in medicine, make predictions and sometimes you're right or wrong. That's great.

04:11 Okay, so

04:14 That's one lesson. I think, you know the the lessons.

04:20 The three stores. I'm going to tell you, I think I'll have similar lessons. So maybe we should talk about that after we talked about the stories. Okay, so I had a a long time patient who I delivered to for children both by cesarean section and it's a second sister is actually she said I'm done having kids. I want you to tie my texts. That's an easy thing to do during a C-section, put these titanium Clips on their Fallopian tubes, so that, you know, they would kick it where it needs to go.

04:59 So to healthy kids, she was, you know, happy.

05:05 She came back without any complications a year later. She comes in the mail office and she said,

05:12 I'm pregnant. I said, you know if blisters are you sure? Is that I ran pretest. I'm pregnant and I put the ultrasound on her and sure enough she was pregnant. So she said to me, okay. I know what this one slide but I tell you what, if you don't tie my tubes, right? The next time I'm going to make you pay for their college. I said, okay. Alright, so we got to do her during cesarean section.

05:46 And when we look at the floating tubes on the two, they were blocking the. Those tubes. There was no way.

05:57 The data egg and sperm should have gotten together.

06:01 But that's why it happened. So, what I did is I put three Clips on each tube, cut a portion now, and I told her I will pay for college if you get pregnant again. Anyway, far as I know she has not gotten pregnant again, they were kind of always wanted a girl that turned out. This was a nice Healthy Grow.

06:31 Your job's probably teenager now, so maybe she's less happy about the teenage girl, but I haven't had a chance to talk with her and you don't have to pay for college in the

06:52 The third one.

06:54 Was.

06:57 Which one was that? A lie? I think I know which one you're going to tell. Is this about Disney World. This is a very Florida story as I said, teaching earlier in my career.

07:13 And I got a call from the emergency room. I said we have a lady down here in labor. She doesn't have a doctor would like to send her up for you to do whatever. I said, sure syndrome.

07:25 And she came up to labor delivery. She was 6, cm dilated, she is not active labor. So this was going to happen pretty soon. But here's the backstory.

07:36 She and her husband had been married for.

07:40 About 20, 25 years. She was 40.

07:46 Free or 44 years old. He was almost 50.

07:51 She was the science teacher at the high school where he was a principal and they happen to have a whole group of students on a school field trip from the school down in South Carolina. And so they had like a dozen teenagers that they were chaperoning.

08:17 She had no idea. She was pregnant.

08:20 None whatsoever. She was a larger woman and, you know, sometimes these things can happen.

08:28 But the story with her was, she had been trying for.

08:33 1520 years to get pregnant.

08:36 And she'd see multiple doctors, they done multiple tests, and they said, sorry, you know, you're never going to be pregnant.

08:45 And what you went to the emergency room with abdominal pain? They said you're pregnant. She goes, I can't be the doctor told me. I would never ever get pregnant at 43 years old. I don't know what to do.

09:00 But her husband was so cute. He came up to the hospital because they told me I have to have a car seat to take the baby home. Where would I get a car seat with the labor and delivery nurses were very helpful to them, postpartum nurses. They had some of the parents of the students come down and take care of the kids at Disney, so that they could take her brand new baby home. I mean, it was a remarkable story.

09:32 But, you know, they got a healthy baby. That's something they wanted for 20 years and the doctor told him it was never going to happen. So I guess I have three stories of people who are thrilled with their junk.

09:49 So, you know, I think.

09:55 Lessons, you can take away from the stories. Are that one? And this applies to all medicine? Never Say, Never?

10:05 There's no absolute cement. You dealing with people. You deal with the probabilities. Don't ever. Say never don't discount, the power Pope.

10:18 And the third one is babies will find a way to get into this world with you want them to be here or not? And I said, I told you you have two older brothers. None of you were playing but you were all very much one. Is it was a joyous experience, almost as joyous as a screen mother's experience. So

10:54 That's what I sent you about medicine. Don't discount the power hub. Never Say, Never.

11:00 And I promise your babies will find a way to get into this world. If they're meant to be here right now if you're smart.

11:18 It was a pretty incredible stories. And you know, I feel very fortunate. I mean those argudo Blockbuster stories.

11:32 But you know what, those don't capture is how beloved you were, as you know, a community physician from the time. I was Little Women would stop us in the supermarket and not the pool and then tell me how much you meant to them.

11:55 And so I feel very fortunate that I get to have you as a role model and carry these lessons with me, but you know outside of these.

12:07 Pregnant ladies coming up to us. You were just my dad, never missed a recital and so, you know, I just hope I can be not only half the position you were, but half the parent. You were going to be so much better with me to see the baby's in the mother's. And you got to hold the baby. Nice. When you were just a little and turn on a little nap in your brain.

12:46 It said, you know, this isn't such a bad gig. I think that's for sure. A woman have the baby Friday and you know, they have these warm and fuzzy feelings about you as you seen forever. So,

13:22 I think, but that's very clear and I can't wait. I can't wait to do it one day.

13:34 That's all I had to do. You have anything else to give you a couple of stories from the past and the

13:45 Take from it. What you will. Thanks, Dad. Love you.