Dr. Adela Stefanija spec. gynecologist-obstetrician at the University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, is an active participant every day in the moments of the greatest joy of the mother when she will see her newborn baby alive and healthy for the first time. The patients say that she is always available to them and that her serenity relaxes them and gives them confidence that everything will go well.

This time, Dr. Stefanija captured what her everyday life looks like.

"We doctors are not just talking 24/7, we are really doctors 24/7.

: Sometimes the mornings can be darker than the nights, because we spent the nights in the hospital on uncertain duty, in the situation of a complicated patient, but when he welcomes me home in the morning it goes like this: waking up with the most unwanted alarm sound, and with all the joy for the new den. For starters I wake up with the most beautiful smell of morning coffee and the taste of fresh lemon, supersonic fast preparations for work and the day can officially start!

Visit to the department for pathological pregnancy and day for outpatient clinic. The number of patients, except scheduled, is constantly increasing because you always have an additional case that a colleague sends you for supervision, or the patient is referred by his family gynecologist with a certain suspicious finding, which does not tolerate waiting. As soon as you have decided to take a short break, you are immediately called from the ward that a patient must be rushed to the operating room to have a caesarean section to complete the birth. The "cream" of that run is certainly a healthy baby and a happy and safe operated mother. I return to the ambulance because not all patients understand why you are gone. The end of the shift is not the end of working hours.

If I have not agreed with my family to sit down somewhere for lunch, then there is a home lunch left, a conversation with my daughter Michaela, who is a student, something about college, something that her "mountain" suffers from over the years. A little peace and relaxation in front of the TV or reading some new medical advances that we must keep up to date with. In the meantime, you hope that the phone will not continue to ring for advice and consultation with patients.

When I have more time, I like to read some fiction, to run on the tape, to breathe nature in the City Park where I often meet a mother with some of "my" baby, a joy that we have experienced together, giving the mother the most beautiful gift of the world, to visit my native Ohrid, but the phone still rings.

That is why we tell her that in our profession there is no end to working hours.

The pandemic changed our lives. Shorten our socializing with friends, shorten our travels. "I hope that in the near future this will come to an end, and the benefits of all this will be higher values, different views of life, deeper connections between people, a greater lesson for the world."