"Your guess is as good as mine...statistically speaking:"
"I've never been off by more than 5 pounds"
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To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net>
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2009 1:07:28 PM
Subject: Re: Ob: When forceps are unsuccessful
No doubt, I get them wrong all the time, (by 2 to 400 gm) but what I am
saying is that I am unlikely to say "this baby is average size" when in
fact it is "BIG".
Steve Raymond
Ph (03)62227898
Cell 0438372395
-----Original Message-----
From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
Richard D. Kaplan
Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 1:34 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
Subject: Re: Ob: When forceps are unsuccessful
I am amazed that you would be amazed that an experienced obstetrician
could
underestimate the size of a baby. I would guess that if you were to
write
down your extimated fetal weight on your next 50 deliveries that at
least
one of them would be off by more than 500 grams. And it only takes one
to
have someone second guess your decision.
Richard Kaplan
Greensboro, NC
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Stephen" <Stephen.Raymond@dhhs.tas.gov.au>
To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Ob: When forceps are unsuccessful
> It has been shown clearly that mothers get the baby's weight right
more
> often than any medical person does. However, I am amazed that you can
> fail to estimate a fetal weight of over 4000gm! Surely just a simple
> palpation would have alerted you to the possibility that it was not
> 3000gm.
>
> Steve Raymond
> Ph (03)62227898
> Cell 0438372395
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