Spending a week at the hospital in Chatham provided first-year medical students some great learning opportunities, including seeing new life enter the world.

Surabi Thirugnanasampanthar, 27, was among the students from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University who witnessed a birth Thursday as Discovery Week wrapped up at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.

Thirugnanasampanthar was part of an anesthesia rotation when a patient needed an epidural “so that led me to go see a C-section, which was really exciting and we saw a baby boy being born.”

Noting she was “honoured and privileged” to a witnessed birth for the first time, Thirugnanasampanthar said it reminded her of the “joys of medicine.”

She said it was a jam-packed day that also included seeing hip replacem

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