Re: TIC - US OB's beware!

From: D. Ashley Hill (dahmd@cfl.rr.com)
Fri Sep 24 13:10:14 2004


Agreed. Some of our fellows have set up shot in very rural areas. In the past 3 years, one of our fellows was doing a tough c/section on a morbidly obese patient with multiple other problems, and asked for a vacuum to assist with delivery of the vertex. The labor nurses had not heard of a vacuum cup, and did not have any available. That's the kind of places many family physicians migrate to after receiving advanced obstetrics training. Have a good weekend. I'm deciding whether or not to bring in the (**#&# patio furniture again. Damn hurricanes :)

Ashley

At Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote: >
>But if they go to underserved areas that a state is paying the entire
>bill -- for the office - paying for all the patients' care - and the
>malpractice - then they probably stay doing it.
>
>They probably wouldn't stay doing it in a town with Obs - because of the
>reasons you stae. They can't do it privately -- but in a funded program
>they could. Takes a special person to be able to stay under those
>circumstances.
>
>Joanne
>
>At Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>>
>>I have seen two of the people trained in these programs. One never
>>wanted privileges for C/S and actually gave up OB 2 years later. The
>>other one got privileges, but never did them and 2 years later gave up
>>OB. Both gave up on OB because they couldn't sdo enough deliveries to
>>pay their Insurance costs.
>>
>>R. Daniel Braun, MD
>
>--
>Joanne Bulley, MD
>Keene, NH, USA
>
>"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies
> in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who
> are cold and are not clothed."
>
>President Dwight D. Eisenhower
>April 16, 1953
>

--
D. Ashley Hill, MD
Associate Director
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency
Orlando, Florida




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