“They’ve brought in a prisoner! So much for an easy shift!” the nurse called out.

Dr. Gibbs headed downstairs, only to find the laboring woman lying half-reclined on a couch, quietly groaning with pain, surrounded by guards and a duty nurse.

“Get her up for sanitation,” Dr. Gibbs instructed after a quick examination, signaling to the orderlies.

The woman was lifted onto a gurney and wheeled away, but the guards began to follow. Dr. Gibbs, surprised, asked, “Where do you think you’re going?”

“You can’t enter the maternity ward. We have special protocols,” one of the guards replied.

“We have our own protocols,” snapped Dr. Gibbs. “We need to maintain order in here. I will decide who enters and who doesn’t.”