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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“As Long As It’s In A Hospital, Nothing Can Go Wrong.”
“As long as it’s in a hospital, nothing can go wrong.” – Ultrasound tech to mother.
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Wow, I really wish that this was true. I’ve miscarried three times, and it would have been awesome to have just checked into a hospital and had three healthy babies instead. My friend would probably give anything for her baby (who was born still in a hospital) to be alive right now. Too bad our rinky-dink town doesn’t have a “safety guarantee” on our hospital.
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The other Julie Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 6:48 am (Quote)
I know. I read this comment and thought, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if that were true?” Can you imagine how comforting it would be if there were a place we could go and know that everything will be okay? It sounds like a return to the Garden of Eden. All uncertainty gone; all problems solved; and everything miraculously turning out all right. If only it were true.
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This is the reason medical malpractice suits are rampant. That’s a promise that NO ONE can deliver on except for God, and God’s not making that promise. So when a family in good faith listens to a medical person say “Nothing can go wrong in a hospital,” and then something goes drastically wrong, they figure the only reason can be gross incompetence. They feel betrayed. And they sue.
DEAR Doctors and other medical types:
Hospitals are not temples of wholeness where wellness and health simply occur. They’re just buildings with a concentration of high-tech equipment and people who have studied medicine.
Love,
Everyone
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Susan Peterson Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 4:45 pm (Quote)
…and germs.
and bossy people. And self righteous narrow and close minded people, who know their way is the only right way.
and tired overworked people, whose lives teach them everyday that they will get to go home sooner if they prioritize paperwork over people.
Just to name a few.
Susan Peterson
just to name a few
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i·at·ro·gen·ic
Adjective: Of or relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment.
Ummmm, I guess this word doesn’t exist? Or did the definition forget to add “which only happens when HCPs treat patients outside of hospitals”?
Not only can things go wrong in a hospital, things can go wrong BECAUSE of the hospital. About 3 years ago, my local hospital’s l&d ward was put under special measures by the (UK) government because after inquests it was shown that at least 2 babies had died as a direct result of the conditions and incompetant care. Things have apparently improved there since, I wouldn’t know as I stay far away from that place now.
Hospitals are useful and neccessary sometimes but they are NOT magic.
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Jane Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 7:39 am (Quote)
Or here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16645597
Three babies in a NICU died from hospital-acquired bacterial infections that were harbored in a faucet.
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Does the hospital attorney know you’re saying this?
I think what you meant to say is. “Hopefully nothing will go wrong. If something does go wrong, especially if it goes badly wrong, the hospital can give you and your baby the best chance. But don’t worry about that, nothing’s wrong with you- you’re just having a baby,women have been doing this for thousands of years and most moms don’t have any problems at all”
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The ultrasound tech first assumed (in shock) I would be having a home birth because I mentioned the word midwife (as if home birth would be a bad thing). When I corrected her and told her I would be delivering in a hospital with a midwife, this was her response. The whole conversation with her annoyed me.
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Oh, and the other thing she said to me was “If baby is big, it will be a c-section, right?” Jeez, I hope not lady.
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Details Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 8:38 am (Quote)
Well of course she said that. If she knew how many moms she had sent to the OR who didn’t need it she would have to find another line of work. She knows the minute she writes down “big baby” (whatever the number happens to be) that mom is going to suffer through major surgery or at the very least an early induced labor. How aweful for her if she is the instrument of torture. How darn you question her beliefs and possibly paint her as the bad guy dooming all these women. She absolutely must think of herself as sparing them needless hours of torture by natural labor. She must be a good person, even if that makes you and your “evil” midwive bad people. (I hope everybody is getting the fact that I think the tech is a highly uneducated and reacting only on an emotional level.)
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Katy Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 10:28 am (Quote)
Yes, that’s what really bothers me. She is an ultrasound tech, which means she is probably very good at administering ultrasounds and recording the data. She probably worked hard to learn this skill. But why on earth does she think it’s appropiate for her to give advice or opinions on surgery ad birth? She didn’t study that! Or if she did, she’s not working in that capacity so she needs a big cup of “shut it.”
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…. and here I have come to believe our local hospital is just a big infection waiting to happen… every time we have taken our son in to the ER for some reason he has come out with some sickness much worse than he went in with….
it must be only the maternity ward that has that protective field around it… Older people go in and die all the time…
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Mama Wrench Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 9:33 am (Quote)
Seriously. The nurses I know won’t even wear their shoes in the house because they know how riddled with disease hospitals are. Yet two immunocompromised people (pregnant women and neonates) are supposed to go into them, spend several days there, and ALWAYS leave unscathed?
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This is what we call a superstition. This is not a guarantee. The hospital is this tech’s lucky rabbit’s foot to ward off whatever… Apparently she knows that it doesn’t ward off c-sections in the case of a big baby, but it is good for many other things. And one must always have one. Logic and reason will not work on this tech. She is a true believer. The best you can get out of this one is to tell her to keep her beliefs to herself while at work. No one wants to hear her proselytizing.
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Ashley had this to say,
Feb 1, 2012 @ 10:12 am (Quote)
Oh yes, nothing can go wrong in a hospital… That is why my son spent a week in the nicu black and blue from all of the iv, blood draws, ect due in part to prematurity because I listened to the doctors who said full term was 37 weeks so there was no need to wait to induce. :p. lesson learned
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Heather had this to say,
Feb 1, 2012 @ 1:52 pm (Quote)
I honestly think the tech wouldn’t consider a c section to be something “gone wrong,” as she probably have seen so many elective c sections vs a true emergency c section. Nor would she follow up on it to see what happens to the mom or baby.
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This whole discussion reminds me of what my ob said to me over 32 years ago when I asked him the reason for something or other that was routinely done at the time:
“Oh, Teapot, there’s just a lot of superstition in obstetrics.”
Just as true now as it was then.
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As long as what is in the hospital ? VB, C-S, US? So many things can go wrong at hospitals. Where do I start?!?
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