Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Okay! Let’s Cut That Rugrat Out!”
“Okay,! Let’s cut that rugrat out!” – OB coming into mother’s room in full OR garb. The mother with a 25 week gestational baby had been flown to a high risk NICU hospital because of preterm labor that had been stopped with medications. The OB had entered the wrong patient room.
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I would’ve started screaming…I already have hospital phobia, and this would have been terrifying to me. Seriously.
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Heather had this to say,
Feb 14, 2012 @ 1:01 pm (Quote)
I’m wondering if he had the gall to try that line again when he walked into the right room.. Or maybe that’s always his entrance line.
Not funny in any way though..
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Rebecca Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 1:37 pm (Quote)
While I think that c-sections are overdone, and “are you ready to meet your baby” is probably a better line, had this doctor been in the right room, this may have been okay if it was a mom who was expecting a c-section (regardless of whether it was needed or not- or even elective) who may still be nervous about the situation. I do think the “We do this all the time” attitude can help moms not worry about surgery.
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Details Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 1:50 pm (Quote)
If this person has already scrubbed and is wandering into random rooms, he needs to go scrub again before he opens up “the right mom.” “We do this all the time” is no reason not to take the clean operating theater thing seriously. If you are wearing your little booties in the hall you are doing it wrong!
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Holy crap! That would have given me a heart attack and a panic attack at the same time! Poor woman! What a terrible situation…and then to have Dr. Scalpel walk in all ready to slice…aaaaaaugh!
(OP, please tell us things turned out okay?)
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Okay obviously nobody got my rugrats reference! Mrs. Pickels, baby Dill. Nobody?
But who walks into a room other than the OR in full OR garb? Are we talking scrubs, booties, gloves the works? That stuff is supposed to be put on after you scrub to keep the field sterile. What an effing idiot.
And stop using the word cut as if you were cutting her hair or her nails. Skin and organs have these things called nerve endings! What a moron!
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I hope the mum in the room (s)he was supposed to walk into had a good relationship with this OB and (s)he was being flippant because of that. If I’d developed a rapport with a doctor and we had a similar sense of humor, this wouldn’t be so bad. But if it was a doctor I’d never met before, I’d freak TF out!
I hope it’s just a case of “oops, wrong room, sorry…” and that’s it.
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Jane Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 3:48 am (Quote)
You know, that situation would work. Mom was on bed-rest in THIS room for 15 weeks, got to know the doctor pretty well, liked to trade jokes with the doctor, regularly called her own baby Rugrat and knew she was having a C-section and was happy with it.
Time comes to have her baby, so the doctor comes on the scheduled day. That mom is moved into a different room where she’ll be postpartum so the new incoming mom can have a room that’s more convenient for the nurses for long-term bed rest.
The doctor goes where s/he *expects* the first mom to be and burst in with a joke they’ve established over the past several weeks, hoping to lighten the mood and give her one more laugh before surgery, and is surprised because the mom’s been moved.
That’s actually the way I’d write it if I were doing it in a novel (which I’m not. LOL.) The doctor as a socially-awkward but well-meaning person who gets into scripts and routines and misses little details like the fact that the patient’s room number has changed.
To the OP: That must have been SCARY. I’m so sorry you got such a nasty surprise. I hope the doctor believed you that you weren’t getting sectioned that day. *sigh*
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Ashley had this to say,
Feb 15, 2012 @ 7:45 am (Quote)
Personally I take most offence to the ‘let’s cut this — out’ I wouldn’t care if they subtituted baby, child, or what ever for rugrat. Let’s cut this baby out is no better IMHO. Let’s get this this baby/rugrat/ect out would be ok *if* I had a good relationship with the ob. But this terminology to me is unacceptable in all cases.
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Haha, I did freak out. Mostly because he sat down, looked straight at me, called me “Mrs. Wilson” and continued/ The nurse had to come in and calm me down after they escorted him out. I started crying because I was so confused and she was my first baby, so I had no idea WHY they wanted to give me a C-section. The nurse came in screaming “No! No! We just stopped her labor!”. Apparently, I shared the same last name with the intended patient who was roomed right next to me.
As it turns out- the OB who walked in and said this was the OB that I ended up seeing this pregnancy before I was released to my high risk doctors. And yes, he is JUST AS BAD as he sounds. He’d constantly tell me “Well, it won’t matter if you lose the baby anyway. Which, with your history, is more than likely.”
To make matters worse, I was still on Magnesium, which is just God-awful. Just bad.
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AmandaW. Reply:
March 20th, 2012 at 4:52 pm (Quote)
* On Magnesium at the hospital after the doc came in, no well into a second pregnancy, haha.
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AmandaW. Reply:
March 20th, 2012 at 4:57 pm (Quote)
sorry! I keep forgetting to add things, lol. for those who asked- yes, things turned out fine. 
i spent the next 4 weeks in the hospital, and was in once a week or more after that to stop various bouts of preterm labor. (I have an incompetent cervix and anything will change my cervix). She ended up being born at 36 weeks in a very, very dramatic way. I am 25 weeks pregnant with baby girl #2 now, and having the same problems, but after my last pregnancy, everyone in L&D remembers me, haha. So hopefully it doesn’t happen again.
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FFS CHECK THE CHART!
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Jessica Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 11:31 am Jessica(Quote)
To be fair, this sounds like more of a case of “Walk into the right room!”
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Mama Wrench Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 12:21 pm Mama Wrench(Quote)
The comment would still be horrible in the right room.
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Sarah Reply:
February 14th, 2012 at 2:08 pm Sarah(Quote)
Agreed
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