Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“You Are My Worst Patient Ever.”
“You are my worst patient ever.” -Anesthesiologist to a woman after her cesarean, who had to be put under general anesthesia because she was screaming in pain during the procedure.
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Noooooo, you’re the worst anesthesiologist ever. o_0
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Nicole Reply:
June 7th, 2010 at 8:30 am (Quote)
Exactly!
To the OP, I am so sorry that happened to you. Feeling your surgery and needing GA is bad enough but to have that jerk say that after is just beyond awful.
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Stephanie - Home with the Kids Reply:
June 7th, 2010 at 9:01 am (Quote)
My thoughts exactly! I don’t care if my pain response is hard on you, it’s worse on me, so shut up!
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What an ass! Not only can’t he do his job, but he needs to come around and rub it in??? I’ve had three c-sections. One with general, one with a spinal and one with an epidural. I don’t ever remember seeing any of those anesthisologists after. Why in the world did this guy who was clearly terrible actually do a follow up? You would think he would be hiding; making sure he never ran into her again. Must have an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore.
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch had this to say,
Jun 7, 2010 @ 7:24 am (Quote)
Why, what a coincidence! I think you’re the worst anaesthesiologist ever! Have a peanut.
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I am a professor – how would it be if I pulled aside a slow student to tell them “You are my worst student, ever.”
Unprofessional? Yeah, I thought so. Same thing here.
Frankly, I don’t even think things like this – it is my job to teach the students that our school accepts – regardless. It doesn’t do anyone any good to mumble about individuals, you just serve them as best you can.
Maybe doctors should do the same?
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Jane Reply:
June 7th, 2010 at 3:27 pm (Quote)
The thing is, if a student came to class and talked on his cell phone the whole time, or juggled during class, never turned in any assignments, and called out obnoxious things from the back row while laughing raucously whenever another student tried to learn, you COULD say, justifiably, that he was the worst student you’d ever taught.
But an anesthesiologist is not relying on the patient’s cooperation. Whether anesthesia works or fails depends entirely and only on the competency of the anesthesiologist. It doesn’t matter if a woman is a good patient or a bad patient: if he doesn’t do his job right, she’s not going to go numb.
So a teacher condemning a student could be completely correct, whereas an anesthesiologist who blames a woman because her epidural didn’t take is only condemning his own skills.
(Anesthesiologist referred to as male for the sake of clarity.)
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What made her a bad patient?? That you couldn’t figure out how to do your job on her unique body??
Or that she had the ‘gall’ to ‘out’ you as as incompetent?
Um… That’s YOUR inadequacies, buster, not hers.
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Sheva Reply:
June 7th, 2010 at 10:55 am (Quote)
I forgot to add: OP – you were right to cry in pain, and normal, too. And that doc is an incompetent, self righteous, pompous, narcissistic, masochistic son of a —–.
I’d go on, but I have to pick up my son from school.
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Hey all! This was mine unfortunately. It’s so sad for me to say that my second child’s birth wasn’t as wonderful as I wished or would have liked it to be…I got stuck with a new doctor who scheduled my induction a day after my due date, the reasons, I have no clue, even till this day and that was 2 1/2 yrs. ago. I would say it was for total conveinence on her part. If I knew then, what I knew now, this would have NEVER happened. I was naive, had an 18 month child at home, and was also a full time nursing student with finals to finish up. I thought doctors know best, so I went along. Well, 15 1/2 hrs. later, I finally dilated to ten and was so tired as was my baby, so guess what happened. Fetal distress, rushed to the OR for surgery. My epidural from before was not doing it’s job. I was crying, screaming, literally begging someone to hold my hand in the OR. No one would listen or believe me that I was still in pain. The OB turns to me and says, if you still feel pain in 5 mins., you are out. I was put out, didn’t get to hear my baby be born and her daddy wasn’t even allowed in the room. The anesthesiologist came to my room as soon as I was alert, and told me this BS line. He also told me I need to grow up before I decide to have another baby and that I put him in a difficult position because I was screaming that I felt everything and did not want to be put to sleep because I wanted to witness her birth and not to mention scared out of my mind!! So, now I have no clue what to do for when I have a third child. I want a VBAC, so we will see how it goes and I am definitely interviewing many doctors before I choose one! I’ve done tons and tons of research…no one will ever induce me unless it is medically or life threatning to myself or my child!
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Jane Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 7:06 pm (Quote)
{He also told me….that I put him in a difficult position because I was screaming that I felt everything}
WHAT?!?! And how would he have liked you to communicate that information to him? And did it not occur to him that HE put YOU in “a very difficult place” by not believing that you could feel it?
Please tell me you reported this man to every single place you could. Please? It’s not too late.
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The WellRounded Mama had this to say,
Jun 24, 2010 @ 10:41 pm (Quote)
I had something similar happen to me in my first cesarean. There can be many causes, but some research indicates an OP (posterior) baby may be one possible cause. The long course of your labor and the fetal distress also suggests a fetal malposition may have been a possibility. Do some research on those to see if you can prevent another one in the future.
If you ever did have another cesarean, a spinal has a much lower risk for “windows” like this. I had a second c/s with a spinal, and it was a much better experience. So it doesn’t have to be like that again, let me reassure you.
But even better is to have a VBAC. I had 2 VBACs after my 2 prior cesareans and didn’t have to worry about anesthesia at all. Definitely a much easier choice!
You are MUCH more likely to have a VBAC with a midwife than a doctor, so don’t limit your looking only to doctors. Also, you’re right that avoiding induction will be important, as induction raises the risk for needing another cesarean and probably also raises the risk for uterine rupture. So spontaneous labor is definitely the way to go.
If you haven’t already found ICAN, http://www.ican-online.org, please check it out. Lots of info and support there for VBAC.
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It’s a poor doctor who blames his patient.
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