This should never happen :(

[twinkles**stars]

Yes there are always risks but this should never have happened. So very sad 😞

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533493/We-heard-pop-like-pottery-cracking-Parents-heartbrok...

The parents of a baby girl who died after her skull was crushed during a forceps delivery are suing the Texas hospital where she was born.

Rachel Melancon had experienced a healthy pregnancy, but when a doctor at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas used forceps during the birth on December 28 it had devastating consequences.

As the medical device was clamped around her baby's head, the 24-year-old and her fiance Allen Coats claim they heard a popping sound as their daughter's skull was crushed.

Heartbroken: Allen Coats and Rachel Melancon with baby Olivia whose skull was crushed during an attempted forceps delivery

Damage: Baby Olivia was born with a fractured skull and broken spinal cord, which left her brain damaged

The baby girl, named Olivia Marie, survived for five more days after being left brain damaged and with a fractured skull and severed spinal cord.

Her parents plan to sue their obstetrician, Dr George T Backardjiev, and the Medical Center of Southeast Texas.

The couple have also started a Facebook campaign page to petition against the use of forceps in all births.

Ms Melancon, at 4ft 11in and weighing 95lb before she became pregnant, had asked for a cesarean section when her baby was overdue and large, considering her mother's petite frame.

The link gives the full story.........

[twinkles**stars]

Absolute rubbish...I have seen more graphic pics of a healthy born baby. Had you not known the baby would not live you would not have posted such comments....would you???

[azureline**]

At that stage they didn't know the bub was dying.

[twinkles**stars]

That is right azure....if you read the story that becomes obvious. People tend to jump to conclusions 😞

[jimmy*part4]

As for finesse, what on earth are you on?
If you don't want the doctor to do their job properly then don't have surgery.

*says the self proclaimed genius that can't google how to changs a washer*

If you read, and comprehended you'd know they didn't do their job correctly. Making a turn with an endoscope takes very lttle pressure and no need to nearly push it through the back of someones throat.

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Over a 100,000 people die each year in the US due to mistakes made in hospitals, and that doesn't include mistakes that injure people, leave them worse than when they went in. Every single medical problem I have ever had has been misdiagnosed. To make it worse I 'd have them look me dead in the eye and claim the problem is this or that and always they were wrong.

My gallstone problem....diagnosed by a carpenter. And thank god for the internet! I can do my own research in the future!

Saying everyone sues might be an exaggeration, but yeah...lots sue. Even the ones that don't seem to have a case.

Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher 2014 between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals

Signed....

Only take Vitamin D! 🙂

[jimmy*part4]

The latest case in the news....

A parent takes their little girl to have her tonsils removed. She is now declared brain dead due to error in surgery. A procedure that was simple 50 years ago.

To show how much the doctors/hospital only care about the dollar....the parents think the little girl is showing signs of life and had to take them to court to keep her on life support. The dead eyed doc made a public statement that she is indeed braindead, showing no signs of remorse for their own mistake.

Another hospital agreed to take her....at no charge!

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

Oh, well it was in the newspapers so it has to be true. 

The article said that the baby's head was full engaged and had to be pulled back during the C-section.  In cases like this it is then question whose life to save, the mother or the baby.  Of-course, the parents are suing, in USA everybody sues. 

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I think in this case that the c-section was done after they realised they had totally **bleep**ed the baby and they had to get it out or the mother would die? 

Regardless, I was made to go through 9 months of pregnancy and 36+ hours of labour to deliver a baby who some ultrasound technician or doctor SOMEWHERE knew would die without immediate attention at birth.

I have the ultrasounds. My baby's heart defect is obvious to trained people. Someone, somewhere allowed me to go through 9 months of pregnancy and a prologned labour to deliver a child who died. I told the doctors to turn the machines off. And no-one bothered to EVER read the ultrasound properly or to tell me or my doctors. If someone had, it would have maybe saved my child's life or maybe saved me and the doctors and the OBs hours of running around saying **bleep**? What do we do?

Fact is, **bleep** happens. There are some shi tty shi tty doctors out there. Some of them really **bleep** it up.

My best friend is a GP when I talk about what happened to me she looks awkward.

My Uncle is an Ob/Gyn, my Aunt is a GP specialising in women's health - they both look awkward and scared around me, if I dare to talk about it... 

I could have sued. I chose not to because the trauma of going through it all again in court for some money that would never make up for what some loser doctor made me and my baby go through wasn't worth it to me.

There are many, many more stories like this out there. Most of the mothers/parents of the babies this kind of c rap has happened to, like me, do nothing because we have already been through enough. No amount of money will ever make up for it.

Standing in court being cross examined about it? Really? It looks ok on TV but I could never do it. It would kill me. Living it once was enough. Doing it in a courtroom? I thought about it and sought advice about it. I just couldn't do it.

[azureline**]

Horrible experience for you Buzz and I understand why you didn't sue.