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Sabía, sí, que la ignorancia —la de todo el mundo, de la gente en general y de los obstetras en particular—, así como la desidia, también de todo el mundo, en la atención de las gestantes y la mala práctica en los paritorios tenían consecuencias, pero nunca lo había percibido de manera tan inequívoca, tan palpable.
He knew, of course, that ignorance about how to care for pregnant women (everyone’s ignorance, people’s in general and doctors’ in particular), negligence (everybody’s, once again), and malpractice had consequences in the birthing room, but he had never seen it so clearly, in such a tangible way.
Minkowski era un gran conocedor de la realidad de la atención del embarazo y el parto en todo el mundo, y solía referirse con frecuencia al ejemplo de China, donde se prescribía el descanso con la seriedad y el rigor de un medicamento: a todas las gestantes se les tomaba la tensión cada ocho días y estaban obligadas a guardar reposo absoluto si presentaban cifras superiores a 12/8.
Minkowski was familiar with the state of pregnancy and birth care all over the world, and he often spoke about China, where rest was prescribed just as seriously and precisely as medicines were—all pregnant women had their blood pressure taken every eight days, and complete rest was ordered if their readings were above 120/80.
He leído que los buenos gestantes deben evitar los alimentos fritos.
I read that good pregnants avoid fried foods.
Señor, acabo de diagnosticar a una gestante al final de su embarazo de tuberculosis.
Sir, I have just diagnosed a heavily pregnant patient with advanced TB. She has five children.
Ni Sanfelice ni yo respondimos: seguía atrapada por la palabra «gestante».
But neither Sanfelice nor I answered him. I was still caught up in that word, “pregnant.”
Dicen que el feto adopta un número inimaginable de rasgos de la gestante aunque no comparta su acervo genético.
They say that the fetus assumes an unimaginable number of the pregnant woman’s traits, even if it does not share her genetic patrimony.
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