SYMHC Classics: Dr. Virginia Apgar

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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This episode revisits the life of Dr. Virginia Apgar, who broke new ground in the fields of obstetrics and anesthesiology in the middle of the 20th century. When babies are born today, one of the tools doctors use to measure whether they're thriving on their own is the Apgar score.

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0:33.2	Happy Saturday.
0:34.3	Today we are going back to 2015 with our episode on Virginia Appgar,
0:38.6	who developed the Appgar score for newborn babies,
0:41.4	and I have a soft spot for her because she reminds me of my grandmother.
0:45.4	Although my grandmother didn't walk around with everything she would need to do
0:48.3	and emergency tracheotomy, just in her handbag.
0:51.3	That was not how my grandmother operated.
0:54.1	No.
0:55.1	I think my grandmother maybe could have cobbled together the required items,
0:59.0	but it wasn't necessarily her goal.
1:01.6	One of the things that we talked about in this episode is how when Appgar started practicing medicine,
1:06.5	there was a lot more focus on what was going on with laboring mothers
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