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Dr. Donald Craig was an intern at the old General Hospital in Saint John on a snowy night in January 1968 when a doctor asked him for help.
The doctor had to deliver a baby at nearby St. Joseph's Hospital, but a woman at the General was also about to give birth. That child was three months premature and expected to be stillborn.
"Can you handle this?" the doctor asked.
Craig had delivered babies before, but only under the supervision of a doctor or a resident. So he grabbed a book on human labour and began to review it.
Then a nurse came and told him the baby was breech — something the doctor hadn't mentioned. So he went back to his book to look that one up. A few hours later, a nurse came to take him to the delivery room.
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