Seeing Double: Doctor Delivers Four Sets of Twins in 24 Hours

Published January 13, 2015

You can excuse Dr. Kenneth Merkitch if he is seeing double these days.

He has been an obstetrician-gynecologist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center for 19 years, but he said he has never experienced a 24-hour on-call period like the one he put in on Friday and Saturday, when he delivered four sets of twins.

"I don't think I ever delivered two sets of twins on a call day," Merkitch said.

"It was hard to believe that everything was coming in twos, but after a while you're up all night, you might as well keep delivering babies," he said. "It's something I don't think I'll see again."

Merkitch delivered one other baby during his shift; he also could not recall ever delivering nine babies during a similar shift.

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