According to a lawsuit filed by the parents, the baby became stuck during labor and the doctor began pulling.
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The bit that makes me not want to give the benefit of the doubt is the fact that they had lost fetal heart tones an hour before going to C-section. For a delivery like this with a couple known complications going into it, the threshold to go to the OR should be much lower. Also, as barbaric as it is, something like an episiotomy could have averted this death.
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I’m saying that they should have gone to C-Section or episiotomy long before it got to that point. This was already known to be a higher risk delivery, and the first sign of shoulder dystocia or other complication should have been the time to elevate the level of care…not several hours later.
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“Officials… said that the doctor who delivered the baby, Tracy St. Julian is not “and never has been” an employee of the hospital.”
How does that work?
A doctor can have practice rights at a hospital but not work for the hospital. So the OBGYN can deliver babies and do C-sections and such but isn’t an employee of the hospital.
If I know my movies and TV shows, you go into the locker room and steal someone’s lab coat and everyone thinks you belong.
I concur. Do you concur?
Gah, I should have concurred!
Or your boss invites your estranged wife to just work there without telling anyone she’s coming. Oh and then you hire the guy she slept with. And everyone is fucking everyone all the time. Including patients.
I swear, if Seattle Grace had an HR department they’re probably all alcoholics.
Doctors sometimes work as contractors for different hospitals.
In my area, I don’t think any doctors are employees of the hospital. The way it was explained to me was that it’s not allowed.
Ok, so from the article, the doctor attempted to puke that baby out and decapitated in the process. They had to do a c section to get the body out separately. The doctor then just tells the parents the baby died, not how it died. The parents find out at the nursing home the baby was decapitated.
So they hire a pathologist to do a post mortem analysis on the body and the pathologist POSTS GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF THE BODY ON HIS INSTAGRAM.
The previous article about the story that this one links to says the doctor not only lied, they also tried to cover it up by wrapping the baby up so tightly the parents couldn’t tell its head wasn’t attacked, and saying they couldn’t get the free autopsy they were eligible for and that they should cremate the body. Wtf.
the doctor attempted to puke that baby out
Well that’s… quite the visual.
Are you unfamiliar with human anatomy, or just an edgelord?
Edit: copy edgelord
That make you a pizza cutter then, boss? All edge and no point?
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news…but it was a complete decapitation. The torso and limbs were delivered via delayed C-section and the head was delivered vaginally. This article has the medical examiner’s release including the description of the head being detached.
From the article linked in the OP:
“When they wrapped the baby up tightly, they propped the baby’s head on top of the blanket to make it appear like the head was attached when it wasn’t,” attorney Dr. Roderick Edmond said.
Definitely doesn’t sound like an “internal decapitation” to me. What a strange thing to lie about.
I don’t think it was a lie, per se. Probably just a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.
Possible, but given the unwarranted confidence in the earlier comments and the “Couldn’t give a shit” in response to being shown to be inaccurate, I’m not inclined to give the user in question the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but a peek at the modlog entries for that user leads me to believe that they just made assumptions and didn’t care to check that they were correct before commenting.
I knew I had read somewhere before that the baby was physically decapitated; thank you for the link.
Oh thank goodness. I feel so much better about it now. /s
Thanks for that very relevant info, MedicPigBabySaver.
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You spread misinformation
Yeah but that doesn’t get as many clicks
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Nope I’m out.
Noah, get the boat.
Jesus Christ.
I didn’t even know that was possible. Are they really that delicate that you can decapitate them just by pulling? That’s horrifying.
Based on the article the doctor spent hours pulling and contorting the baby’s head. So, Im guessing that no it’s not something you can do just by pulling i.e. something went very wrong here, hence an investigation and possibly criminal charges in the near future.
