Thanks; I’ve blurred out part of one of my comments.
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Never saw mention of ethnicity or photos of the doc. The victims/parents were certainly young and Black. Unfortunately, we have seen too often that even PoC’s can internalize the dehumanization of minorities. Witness Black cops. Not even saying that was an issue in this particular case, but as @Melizmatic said, you knew the victims were going to be PoC’s without even checking. It’s an incredibly sad commentary on medical care in our country. Among many sad commentaries.
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Thanks; I just highlighted the section and Mindysan33 directed me to the settings icon on the right at the top of the comment box. It’s worked.
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I went back and added a link to the “About Us” section on the provider’s website. I was surprised; I was just looking for where she practiced since the hospital put out a statement that she was not their employee (her practice uses their facilities) and I was wondering if this is one of those “this doctor who exclusively practices here and will be assigned to you by our staff is nevertheless an independent contractor” situations.
ETA: 100% agreed on the rest of your comment.
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Either way works!
Thank you!
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Thanks and you’re welcome!
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I’m reading through the lawsuit, and if the allegations are true, this is somehow even worse than I thought originally.
- 10:00 AM: Ross’s amniotic membrane ruptures
- 10:10 AM: Ross arrives at ED
- 12:28 PM: IV Pitocin started
- 8:40 PM: Ross is fully dilated and starts pushing
- 9:26 PM: Fetal monitor strips show repeated and consistent Category 3 patterns, which my non-expert, quick review suggests requires an emergency C-section if not quickly corrected, unless there are other reasons (e.g. for the health of the mother). No documentation of any resuscitation measures taken in response to the Cat 3 patterns
10:36 PM: Fetal monitor strips show profound bradycardia (slow heart rate) for 10 minutes, after which no fetal heartbeat is detected - 11:49 PM: Doctor starts emergency C-section
- 3:01 AM: C-section is completed and pitocin drip is halted
- The suit does not specify when shoulder dystocia was identified, but claims no record of emergency protocols and no attempts to use McRobert’s maneuver to correct the shoulder dystocia.
- The suit claims that employees of both the hospital and OB/GYN practice dissuaded the parents from getting an independent autopsy and pushed for cremation.
- An affidavit attached to the suit claims that Ross requested a C-section from the doctor and was denied. It does not say when.
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Just for perspective, and I can only use my hospital standards here, there was a 2 hour gap from indication for stat c/s to start of c/s. We require that to be less than 30 min. There was a 1 hour gap from indication for crash section to start of c/s. That should be less than 15 min, I’ve seen it in 5. Then we have 3 hours and 22 min to complete the procedure, I assume skin to skin. That’s bonkers. I have to think this is where the “Holy shit, how do we make this go away?” was going on. That timeline alone hangs the hospital staff. To quote @Melizmatic again, WTAF??
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To be clearer, that also includes time to repair the proctoepisiotomy, but yeah, I assume so.
ETA: And yeah, the timeline from, at minimum, bradycardia to stat c-section was what pushed this over into “this is somehow even worse.” Forget hospital standards, forget generally accepted standards of practice, the fact that it allegedly took them a fucking hour to decide “you know, maybe this vaginal birth isn’t working” is incredible, in the most literal sense of the word. Someone with absolutely no medical training would make that decision faster.
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You did the right thing. I wish I could take back clicking on it.
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I have a lot of practice shielding myself from psychologically harmful content:
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nah, man. just nah.
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Who knows? Maybe; the American healthcare system might just do that. I’ve taken your comment at face value as being a serious question.
That’s not fucking funny dude.
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Ghoulish, much?
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This is fucking horrid. Gonna hug my kids extra tight tonight.
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