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Re: Medical Care - When should I be worried?

From: Rachel (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:57:11 -0600 (CST)

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I find your treatment appalling!! The hospital was negligent in my opinion, even if there truly was nothing anyone could do, the least the doc could do was to treat you with some common decency! Also, I would never stay with an OB that doesn't even remember me. You deserve and have the right to receive proper medical care. HMO or not, you should be able to get your primary care physician to give you a referral to another OB. Worst care scenario, after working for the health insurance industry, call your HMO and do not rest until you are permitted to see another physician. Due to your first bout with bleeding and the partial placenta detachment, you might even be classified as a high-risk pg and qualify to go to a specialist anyway. Check out these options and do not stand idle and the health care system walks on you, you can fight for appropriate medical care. Good luck!

At Mon, 5 Mar 2001, swirlgirl wrote: >
>I recently ended up in L&D of a local hospital for bright red bleeding
>and cramping at 21 weeks. My OB was out of town and I had to see
>physician on-call. I had bleeding earlier in my pg due to a separation
>of a part of my placenta (which supposedly reattached a weeks ago &
>confirmed by u/s).
>
>I was there from 9am-2pm. I never saw the physician on-call. He felt
>that I did not need to be seen. He told the nurse that there was
>nothing they could do for me at this stage of my pg anyway. He told her
>that the baby was not the right "weight" and "age" requirement and that
>I should just go home and stay in bed. If anything progressed, it would
>be considered a spontaneous or threatened abortion.
>
>The nurse then sent me home and told me to keep my regular OB appt in 2
>weeks. I was not checked for bleeding nor did I have a cervical (or any
>type of physical) exam.

>Additionally, my regular OB doesn't seem to know me! I've seen her every
>2-3 weeks since I started prenatal. She doesn't know me and continues to start every
>visit with the wrong info until she looks at the chart and says "Oh, I'm
>sorry! That wasn't YOU!" OR BETTER YET "Do you speak English?" Terrible!

--
Rachel

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