Rant incoming.
Rant incoming.
This is absolute, unbelievable, indescribable bullshit. I simply do not have the words to express the total rage that this triggers. And it's true. The culture in the US puts babies on some sort of deified pedestal and the women that you have to have to have the babies are some sort of inconvenient afterthought of necessity. It is inseparable from the culture that is so adamantly anti-abortion in that regard. You can always find another breeder, but each baby is precious!
Bullshit.
Our maternal mortality is higher than how many other developed countries? And the fsking GOP wants to make insurance coverage of maternity care fsking optional???? Nevermind cutting off access to that care for the mothers who would have gone to Planned Parenthood.
Bullshit.
Do I believe it's possible that there are programs to train physicians not only in general Ob/Gyn, but in specialties like MFM (Maternal Fetal Medicine) that have critical inadequacies? Yes.
And that's bullshit, too.
When you see something like this, it tells you exactly what kind of value your society puts on its women. Because it's not about how much you say you care, it's about how much you do, especially when nobody is watching, that shows you care. What does this show? We don't care.
FYI, HELLP is one of the rare, life threatening complications of pregnancy that is part of the knowledge base you are tested on for every one of the three levels of licensing exam through medical school and to be licensed as an MD in the US. The fact that it is considered that important yet we have no major papers on maternal mortality in HELLP since 1999 makes me want to spit nails. It was only given a name in 1982, ferchrissakes. Not to mention pre-eclampsia, in general. How can you not even monitor for postpartum preeclampsia in FUCKING 2011.
EVEN THE WRITERS OF DOWNTON ABBEY KNEW WHAT THIS WAS. Oh, right. Britain doesn't have a shitty maternal mortality rate. Nevermind. A TELEVISION SHOW ABOUT EDWARDIAN ENGLAND IS PAYING MORE ATTENTION THAN WE ARE.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger
This is absolute, unbelievable, indescribable bullshit. I simply do not have the words to express the total rage that this triggers. And it's true. The culture in the US puts babies on some sort of deified pedestal and the women that you have to have to have the babies are some sort of inconvenient afterthought of necessity. It is inseparable from the culture that is so adamantly anti-abortion in that regard. You can always find another breeder, but each baby is precious!
Bullshit.
Our maternal mortality is higher than how many other developed countries? And the fsking GOP wants to make insurance coverage of maternity care fsking optional???? Nevermind cutting off access to that care for the mothers who would have gone to Planned Parenthood.
Bullshit.
Do I believe it's possible that there are programs to train physicians not only in general Ob/Gyn, but in specialties like MFM (Maternal Fetal Medicine) that have critical inadequacies? Yes.
And that's bullshit, too.
When you see something like this, it tells you exactly what kind of value your society puts on its women. Because it's not about how much you say you care, it's about how much you do, especially when nobody is watching, that shows you care. What does this show? We don't care.
FYI, HELLP is one of the rare, life threatening complications of pregnancy that is part of the knowledge base you are tested on for every one of the three levels of licensing exam through medical school and to be licensed as an MD in the US. The fact that it is considered that important yet we have no major papers on maternal mortality in HELLP since 1999 makes me want to spit nails. It was only given a name in 1982, ferchrissakes. Not to mention pre-eclampsia, in general. How can you not even monitor for postpartum preeclampsia in FUCKING 2011.
EVEN THE WRITERS OF DOWNTON ABBEY KNEW WHAT THIS WAS. Oh, right. Britain doesn't have a shitty maternal mortality rate. Nevermind. A TELEVISION SHOW ABOUT EDWARDIAN ENGLAND IS PAYING MORE ATTENTION THAN WE ARE.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-during-childbirth-leaves-u-s-moms-in-danger
Fucking, ditto.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine recently (as in a few months ago, she's back at work) hemorrhaged after giving birth. 17 pints of blood.
ReplyDeleteI read birth medical records from 1926 to 1958 (for science!). They damn well screened for preeclampsia.
ReplyDeleteChristina L Brainard Sweet bejeesus. I hope she's ok.
ReplyDeleteTherese Noren I cannot see how that hospital and team is not one great big case of malpractice. That kind of place is where you look and go I don't think I'm buying the we get more complicated cases story, here. Places like that are why it's really hard to fight off the let's sue everybody culture. Because this place should not be allowed to keep killing women. In fact, after reading that, I'd tell women not to have babies in NJ at all.
However, because the maternal mortality rate across the US is high, the big questions this article prompted for me is why the hell nobody gives a rat tail about what happens to moms after the baby is born, in general, why there's virtually no research on moms, and why people are so damn resistant to standardizing good practices.
Why isn't mom consistently monitored throughout labor and delivery? Why isn't mom monitored after delivery? Why aren't people listening to the mom's and their families if they express a concern?
We boot women out of the hospital asap, and I know there are infection risks keeping them in, but is there any standardized last minute check of the mom before discharge? Seemingly not.
We sometimes send lactation consultants (or call) and pester the heck out of women about that, but why don't we send anyone to ask about the mom?
And they're right. LIttle or nothing is sent home about checking on mom, or what to do if mom isn't ok. Why not?
This particular case is egregious but I am sadly not surprised, although I am distressed, to learn that the medical culture in this country persists in thinking that birth is somehow magical and everything will magically be fine. Not to mention dismissing a woman's expressions of pain and concern about her own body. I mean, they complain about everything, just reassure them and that'll calm that hysteria right down. It's unfortunate that those moments are rarely ones where you feel well enough to slug people.
F-L Silver, she seems to be doing very well. She's going to DJ my brother's wedding in July.
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