Hey, CP Solvers. Welcome back and welcome to the fourth episode of our Women in Diagnosis series.

I'm Steph Lay. I want to tell you a story about an airline emergency.

The year is 2020 and I was traveling internationally back home to San Francisco on a flight with my co-resident and friend. We were both in the last

few months of our internal medicine residency. Due to a funny series of events, my co-resident and I were

separated on this flight. He was in first class while I was in economy. But I didn't mind.

It was a long flight, and I was planning to spend most of it

sleeping anyway. Thanks to three long years of residency, I coveted sleep and sleeping anywhere

and any time became my subspecialty. I can sleep on command even after drinking a full

cup of coffee. So I zipped up my jacket, inserted my

earphones, and fell fast asleep. And then I woke up to an announcement overhead. Is there a medical

doctor on board? Foo? Let me tell you,

injured staff would have probably gone into a superventricular tachycardia,

but I was just about to graduate,

had completed my CCU and ICU rotations,

and somehow earned a reputation for being a code blue magnet during residency.

So this time, I felt more cautiously ready to respond to the call of duty.

I reached up for the call light and pressed it,

and I heard another bell go off as another person had apparently also volunteered.

Standing up, I can see into the first class cabin, and I could see that my co-resident also

volunteered and was standing up as well. However, the flight attendant in his part of the plane

told him he could sit back down, seeing as how somebody else had already volunteered.

I stepped out into the aisle.

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