I would love to deliver 100% of the babies delivered in Tillamook. I know many of you. But obstetrics by its very nature is unpredictable with long hours. I don’t know any obstetric physicians that deliver all their own patients. It isn’t safe.
In Tillamook, there are only two of us. Myself and Dr. Welch. Even though we take call one week on, one week off, we each take care of our own patients during the workweek meaning that both of us end up delivering ~80% of our own patients.
If you are one of my patients you may have Dr. Welch as your delivery physician, when you are close to your due date ask me about the call schedule and I will tell you who is on call and when.
I trust the whole staff here at Adventist Health Tillamook, the nurses, Dr. Welch and I all work together as a team. We will take care of you and your baby to the best of our ability. If you have special requests, every single one of us will strive to honor those requests and if we can’t, we will explain why. If you have special requests or don’t understand something, it is your responsibility to ask for clarification.