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Re: Furious with OB

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 5 May 2001 00:48:50 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 4 May 2001, Chryste wrote: >
>I have PIH and am due tomorrow. My OB has said that he didn't want to
>go much beyond my date due to my PIH and he brought me in to induce with
>gel last Monday and Tuesday - no change. Well, yesterday I found out
>WHY we bumped the plan up a week. He brought in a new partner on
>Tuesday and left for a four day conference on Thursday. He has promised
>me that HE would be there for my delivery in case a problem arose then
>dumped me with no warning into someone's care whom I have never met,
>know absolutely nothing about (background, practices, philosophies etc),
>who knows nothing about me, and most importantly whom I didn't CHOOSE. I
>don't have a problem with him leaving I have a HUGE problem with him
>leaving two days later before a single client has even met this woman.
>We are PEOPLE not ANIMALS!!! A little respect for our feelings, need for
>security and knowing we're in competent hands is in order. If I go into
>labor before Monday then I'm SOL - there is only one other Dr with
>hospital status whom I can see and frankly I fired him early on in my
>pregnancy. So, if anything goes wrong and the midwife can't deliver
>then I'm stuck putting myself in someone's hands whom I know nothing
>about and I am livid. The day before I'm due is a little late to be
>looking for a new OB and hospital. He isn't helping my BP either.

your doc is entitled to go out of town, but you should have been told about it, and that there is another, new doc who is covering. It sounds like it was not handled well, to say the least. I hope venting here helps -- take a few deep breaths to bring that BP down

-- M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG South Lake Tahoe, CA

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