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Anna Meenan, MD
At Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
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U/S shows a baby that just
>lays there without any movement at all, and she was sent to the hospital
>for NST. Still waiting on results.
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> Anna Meenan, MD
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>At Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Lynn D. Montgomery, M.D. wrote:
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>>Heh y'all,
>>Had a great experience that makes me want to keep doing this business.
>>Following a patient for her pregnancy with the only complication being
>>gestational diabetes - diet controlled. She was 39 weeks and presented
>>for her scheduled OB visit. I greeted her then had her recline to check
>>the baby - since the u/s is sitting there, I do my OB checks with it. I
>>note a fetal demise, put down the transducer and tell her as
>>empathetically as you can do something like that. Without hesitation,
>>she sat bolt upright and called me a fu----- and said I was responsible
>>for the loss of her baby. She continued to scream obscenities at me and
>>threw a towel at me. She then told me that there would be a guaranteed
>>law suit and that she was holding me responsible for her loss - that I
>>should have delivered her at 37 weeks. Then she turned to her husband,
>>who was sobbing and said, "I told you we should have come in a couple of
>>days ago cause the baby wasn't moving". She then stormed out of the
>>office.
>>
>>Got called the next morning by a family doc North of here who delivered
>>her. True knot in the cord, combined with a nuchal cord x 2 and it was
>>his opinion that the baby had been gone for several days by appearances.
>>
>>Have never experienced anything like that in 15 years of practice.
>>
>>Love doing a job when it is a given that its always my fault - always...
>>Lynn
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