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Re: lawsuit resulting from cesarean From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Sat May 3 12:18:11 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ricardo Savaris: "Re: lawsuit resulting from cesarean" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" In reply to: Marilyn Ringstaff: "lawsuit resulting from cesarean" Next in thread: Ricardo Savaris: "Re: lawsuit resulting from cesarean" Right - see and I'll bet you folks thought OJ was guilty too. art At Sat, 3 May 2003, Marilyn Ringstaff wrote: > >>> >Jennifer and list: anyone know of a lawsuit resulting from having made >>> >decision to perform CS for any reason? >>> >>From Westlaw: this is FN #231 from 10 GASTULR 615 > >C.A. No. 88-6450 (Middlesex County, Mass. Super. Ct. June 7, 1993), >reported in Woman Wins $1.5 Million for Unnecessary C-section, MED. >MALPRACTICE L. & STRATEGY, July 1993, at 6; Betsy A. Lehman, Woman >Wins $1.5 Million Suit on Unwanted Cesarean, BOSTON GLOBE, June 16, >1993, § 3, at 1. The facts and quotations about this case are taken >from these two reports. > >"Ms. Meador claimed that she had wanted to attempt a vaginal delivery >despite a prior cesarean delivery and that her doctor had initially >agreed. He purportedly changed his mind shortly before her due date out >of concern that the baby might be endangered if delivery was prolonged >after the due date. Ms. Meador was unable to find another doctor who >would accept her as a patient so late in her pregnancy, and her doctor's >associate ultimately performed the cesarean. Even though the baby was >healthy, seven years later Ms. Meador said that she was still angry >about her loss of control over childbirth: 'I felt a strong betrayal of >trust.'" > >-- >Marilyn Ringstaff, CNM > -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: Ricardo Savaris: "Re: lawsuit resulting from cesarean" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Marking surgical site for c/s and BTL" In reply to: Marilyn Ringstaff: "lawsuit resulting from cesarean" Next in thread: Ricardo Savaris: "Re: lawsuit resulting from cesarean"

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