Officially, I hadn’t been negligent and nobody suggested otherwise. Medical negligence will always be judged by asking the question “Would your peers have done anything differently in that situation?” All my peers would have done exactly the same things and had exactly the same outcome. But this wasn’t good enough for me. I knew that if I’d been better—super-diligent, super-observant, super-something—I might have gone into that room an hour earlier. I might have noticed some subtle changes on the CTG. I might have saved the baby’s life, saved the mother from permanent compromise. That “might
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