Re: OB: No Candid Camera
From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)
Tue Feb 21 08:30:21 2006
I just HATE delivering on Super bowl sunday. I've had whole super bowl
parties going on around a laboring mom.
--
Anna Meenan, MD
At Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Jamie wrote:
>
>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
>
