G-section: How a Cork-born doctor delivered a baby gorilla by caesarean

Not many men can claim to have helped impregnate a gorilla or to have delivered a primate by caesarean section, but David Cahill’s CV is fairly unique, even in the radical world of fertility medicine.

G-section: How a Cork-born doctor delivered a baby gorilla by caesarean

So far, so bizarre, particularly as David’s background is one of delivering human babies and treating human couples for fertility problems.

A consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist, originally from Donoughmore, Co Cork, David’s involvement with the largest living primates goes back over a decade.

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