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My point about making up your maternity leave in residency at the end is that in a big enough residency, there are probably always going to be one or two women out, but then there will also be others left over from the previous year making up their time and contributing to the call mix. So it does balance out overall. The bedrest is another issue, and no one can predict a complicated pregnancy. That could be viewed the same as someone getting sick and needing an extended leave for any reason. You could argue that these individuals made the choice to get pregnant, but that is not always true. And granted being pregnant as a resident makes one automatically high risk, but no more so than any other stressful, demanding job.