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Re: placentas From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Tue Dec 5 11:36:07 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Go figure. What would you do?" Previous message: Griffiths Malcolm: "Re: client abstinence before Paps" In reply to: croure@attglobal.net: "Re: cord gas, etc." Next in thread: Paul Prior MD: "Re: placentas" Reply: Paul Prior MD: "Re: placentas" If I was paying my own bills, I certainly would not want to pay out of pocket to have the placenta looked at if the birth and the baby were normal. As for sending the placenta home with the patient, how do you manage that? Our hospital won't even let patients have their gallstones anymore (OSHA rules) and my orthopedic surgeon had to sneak the pins he took out of my feet to me so I could take them home. I would classify a placenta as more of a biohazard than gallstones or steel pins. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Mon, 04 Dec 2000, CarynRybs@aol.com wrote: > >had to comment on this one since Dr. Benirschke is at UCSD (Univ of >california at San Diego) where I trained and was every bit as enthusiastic >and thorough as his article would suggest. We saved all placentas and then >sent most of them for him to look at- at least a gross and often a micro- >seems he could always find something interesting about them... Sounds naive >but I never realized that the patients would actually get charged for this >separately. I hope this wasn't the case down there b/c some of them were >sent just because we had him there. Wish we all had someone like him at our >respective hospitals/birth centers but agree that the should be sent for >indicated cases only. Where I am now- Oakland/Berkeley, patients often want >to take the placenta home with them. Different strokes for different folks... > ><<If Dr. Benirschke was our pathologist, I would send a helluva lot >ofplacentas :).>> > >Caryn Rybczynski M.D. Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Go figure. What would you do?" Previous message: Griffiths Malcolm: "Re: client abstinence before Paps" In reply to: croure@attglobal.net: "Re: cord gas, etc." Next in thread: Paul Prior MD: "Re: placentas" Reply: Paul Prior MD: "Re: placentas"

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