Re: Hospital is a safe place to give birth...

From: Jamie (ajfields@pine-net.com)
Tue Jan 24 11:29:51 2006


I agree the attorney is playing public opinion here, but (you knew it was coming) I found that patients and families often understand far less of what is really happening than we think, and even less in a very stressful situation. Add a potential language barrier and that increases exponentially. Imagine the decision presented, most likely to the husband, if the wife was sick enough to need quadruple amputations. They went to have a baby, she started getting sick, and within a few days he's being told that without amputating everything, she'll die. That is very likely the only thing he really got, no matter how much information was actually given.

At Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Efrain Ramirez wrote: >
>I agree with Robert that there is no way that she, her husband and her
>family were never told what was going on.. I believe that these are
>just tremors staged by their lawyer(s) before the "big one" ...
>
>Ef
>
> At Mon, 23 Jan 2006, rmodugno@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: GA12L@aol.com
>>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>>Sent: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:56:16 -0600
>>Subject: Re: Hospital is a safe place to give birth...
>>
>> Get rid of that 2 x 4
>>
>>Gail
>>
>>Gee Gail, it's only you and el who think I have one. I just tell like it is. ;+)
>>
>>Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG
>>Marietta, GA
>
>--
>“ The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance,
>it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin - Historian
>

--
JFields, RN, BSN




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