UCLA physician makes a special delivery on her honeymoon

Dr. Angelica Zen’s recent honeymoon with her brand new husband, Ryan Miyakawa, will be forever memorialized in snapshots of the happy couple in Bali — and YouTube and TV news videos from all over the world because of what happened on their homebound plane 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. On Oct. 8, Zen, a UCLA resident physician in internal medicine-pediatrics, was sleeping in the main cabin about six hours into an Air China flight that left Taiwan for L.A. when she was awakened by a voice on the plane's PA system asking if a doctor was available. Still groggy, Zen volunteered that she was a doctor. Because she looks so young, people usually look twice and sometimes brush her off, Zen said. “But this time, they said, ‘Yay! Please come up to the front to help this woman.’” The woman, she was told by flight attendants, was having abdominal pains. “I thought, ‘Well, it could be a simple upset stomach or maybe motion sickness.’ So I went to see her, expecting it to be a simple case. But when I saw her — she was completely pregnant,” Zen recalled. “And just by the fact that she was having horrible pain every few minutes, it really seemed that she was in labor, although she didn’t realize it.” Although Zen has helped out with deliveries before at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as a UCLA medical student, surrounded by supervising doctors, she had never delivered a baby alone. So she was a bit nervous. Edmund Chen Dr. Angelica Zen (right) holds...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news