Re: OB: No Candid Camera
From: Jamie (ajfields@pine-net.com)
Tue Feb 21 07:16:29 2006
I had a young FOB leaning around me to watch a basketball game while his
girlfriend pushed. I turned it off and dared him to complain in her
hearing.
At Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
>
>One of the more bizarre deliveries I had ...
>
>Parents there watching TV ... one of the Freddy Kreuger movies (for
>those who don't know them - it is a horror genre and Freddy does
>horrible things to the victims) ... the RN and I were determined we
>would turn it off when delivery was iminent. Unfortunately (for us and
>the baby) that she went from 7 or 8 cm to delivery in about one
>contraction precipitously.
>
>No chance to turn off the TV. It was one of the most gruesome - near
>the end - scenes. "Freddy" is tearing the victims apart limb from limb
>and throwing the parts into a fiery chasm.
>
>The parents are glued to the TV and we have to call attention to the
>baby that is breathing and crying and all that normal stuff. They
>glance at the baby and return there attention 100% to the gruesome
>scene.
>
>Baby was admitted to Pedi a few weeks later for failure to thrive. I
>wanted to take that baby and give it to the couple who had just
>miscarried.
>
>Joanne
>
>At Mon, 20 Feb 2006, RModugno@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 2/17/2006 3:07:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>garrys@mindspring.com writes:
>>
>>It is a very sad state that childbirth--one of the most, if not the most
>>important events in one's life cannot be memorialized if desired due to
>>liability concerns. That said, I am in full agreement with no video
>>given the liability concerns we face today.
>>
>>Garry
>>
>>That's if you can get the patient to stop watching Jerry Springer on the
>>damn TV for a minute!
>>
>>Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG
>>Marietta, GA
>
>--
>Joanne Bulley, MD
>Keene, NH, USA
>
>"Love is indescribable and unconditional.
>I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is."
>— Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974).
>
--
JFields, RN, BSN
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