http://www.theunnecesarean.com/blog...gnant-woman.html?lastPage=true#comment7911692 What's it say about a doctor if he can't even tell if a woman is pregnant?
So she's a good liar, but the doc's should have covered their tushies and tested her either by urine or blood before doing ANYTHING!! How goofy.
a quick ultrasound should have been done just to check for dates...what if she was pregnant but only 32 weeks and tired of it...that happened where I work...we thought we were getting a 38 weeker but she had lied about her due date. She didn't want to be pregnant anymore and did not understand the issues of a 32 week delivery. We do an ultrasound on any pt without local prenatal care before anything is decided upon. We have had unpregnant...a few prisoners (it gets them out of jail for a while) and then the just plan crazy...but we figured it out before the section. lol. What about the monitor? I mean, you sure shouldn't induce if you can't get a good strip...and surely you wouldn't be able to get a good strip on someone who isn't pregnant??????
oh my stars I think there is alot more to this story. I work on OBGYN floor for along time. I bet once they invest more the doctor wasn't even a doctor. Man we never did anything like that without a ultrasound first. She which way the baby was so the doctor know what to do. This story is a little fishy to me.
The doctor was a resident. There is a quote in there from his attending. Basically saying that she never thought she'd have to double check that he really checked that his patient was pregnant.
We had a lady at a former church who was telling everyone that she was pregnant. She was probably in her late 40's, at least, but her dh was considerably younger. She had grown children and grandchildren and had also had a complete hysterectomy years earlier. (Needless to say, she would fall into the "crazy" category). I mean they had a nursery set up, name picked out, the whole nine yards! After about a year and a half when there never was a baby, she began telling everyone that it was a "tumor." Whatever! I've also got to wonder if the woman in this story really THOUGHT she was pregnant or what? Why did she allow them to attempt a C-section? Bizarre!!!
Uh, don't they monitor the fetus when doing an induction? So wouldn't they have immediately noticed there was no fetus? And how the heck can someone just walk in and ASK for a c-section and get one?!
The attending was in the room. Notice the article talks about TWO doctors (one resident, one attending) who are in hot water over this. But, again, the attending was not the one who made the descision and trusted that the resident had actually confirmed the pregnancy.
I worked with a woman who they thought was pregnant, and it was a tumor. I never thought about the woman! DUH!!! Good point!
Oh, so if I go in and DEMAND to have emergency surgery, they'll just do it without checking things out first?
Oh, I just meant that in response to the "what did the lady think" question. Meaning that she (the patient) was obviously a nut.
