WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for July, 2000: Re: Birth Certificates

Re: Birth Certificates

From: AMD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:07:02 -0500 (CDT)

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The more I think about it, I figure it is probably done differently in different places. It is thoroughly impractical to try to track down the birth attendant to sign the new birth certificate, particularly in a large city, and certainly impossible for adoptions that occur months or years after the birth. And it could cause confidentiality/ethical problems.

I looked up the hospital where my husband was born and the doctor that is on the birth certificate is listed as a pathologist. I'm guessing he didn't attend the birth. Of course, there's no knowing what he was doing there 30 years ago.

Maybe each county or hospital has a designated "signer" for these (I'm just hypothesizing)?

Thanks, Andrea

At Tue, 25 Jul 2000, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>At Tue, 25 Jul 2000, AMD wrote:
>>
>>This is totally not a medical question, but I figure you folks must sign
>>a LOT of birth certificates and may be able to offer some insight here.
>>
>>My husband was adopted, but his birth certificate has a doctor's
>>signature on it (dated 11 days after his birth).
>>
>>Does the doctor sign both the original birth certificate (with the birth
>>mother's info) and the final birth certificate (with the adoptive
>>parents' info)? Or do you just sign the original and the records
>>department transfers your signature to the final birth certificate? Or
>>are adoptive birth certificate signed by a "administrative" doctor who
>>did not actually attend the birth?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Andrea
>
>On all the adoptive children that I have dleivered, I signed just one
>birth certificate, which had the mother's info on it as usual. I must
>confess, I have never considered what you are asking. It must be
>someone else who signs the limited birth certificate, if that is indeed
>what happens.
>
>--
>William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
>Clarksville, TN
>
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