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Huffington Post Amanda Chan First Posted: 08/02/11 06:29 PM ET Updated: 10/02/11 06:12 AM ET
A 25-year-old woman is suing the doctor who delivered her when she was a baby, saying she would not have medical difficulties from erb's palsy today if he had just conducted a caesarean birth like her mother requested, according to news reports.
Halina Jane Gillett was born in 1985 in a hospital in Newcastle, Australia. Her mother, Marilyn Benson-Inglis, requested a C-section from her obstetrician Professor Jeffrey Robinson because the pregnancy was "much bigger" than her previous three pregnancies, Australia's The Telegraph reported.
However, Robinson ended up doing a forceps delivery, which Gillett says caused her erb's palsy, according to The Telegraph.
The medical condition leaves Gillett without full use of her arm. It is often caused by shoulder dystocia during birth, which occurs when the head and neck of the baby are pulled to the side while the shoulders are going through the birth canal, news.com.au reported.
Now, Gillett is taking Robinson to Australia's Supreme Court.
UpCspine.com to start....
This website was created by a patient/believer and is supported by millions who have found relief from HEADACHES TO DEPRESSION TO IBS TO M.S. TO FYBROMYALGIA and many, many more. Like I said, too simple for most to comprehend....
Theses doctors get their money an one lives with the mistake they make. they walk away richer.
It is life the are dealing with. Physical life can not be replaced. It sounded this doctor was arrogant.
There is less chance of infection in nature birth. Doctors needs to listen to Patient it is their body.
http://www.medicineonline.com/news/12/6008/High-infant-mortality-seen-with-elective-c-section.html
You may continue to fight amongst yourselves.
There are good doctors and bad doctors, just like in every profession. There are some things that are just plain malpractice. BUT, what I see on this site is an outright hostility toward the medical profession - like we are all money hungry, evil people who never listen to their patients. I for one have a very holistic approach to medicine and always listen to my patients. I also understand that every case is unique. I will do a c-section on a patient that is requesting one due to the size of the baby (in fact, many times we offer a c-section if we suspect the baby is big)...I just explain the risks and the benefits of both c-section and trial of vaginal delivery with possible shoulder dystocia/erb's palsy (brachial plexus injury).
Holy crap...did she order fries with that delivery?
With all the risks involved with a C/S, there are strict criteria for doing one. A history of difficult pregnancies has zero merit in this case. The only positional indication for a C/S is breech....period.
And here I thought the US cornered the market on ambulance chasers...
I'll give the tin-foil heads on this site one legitimate point...a patient has a Bill of Rights (at least here in the US). Thoses rights DON'T include dictating care to a physician who has spent the better part of a decade training to do what he/she does. The Bill of Rights does include the right to transfer care. If she truly was in labor for 30 hours, she had SEVERAL opportunities to fire her current doc and get a new one. She didn't.
I'm not saying the doc was right. He might have performed malpractice and deserves to be taken to the cleaners if he did that. What he is not guilty of is failing to do a la carte medicine.
Long story short...your doc did an invasive surgical proceedure with NO medical indication (at least none that you have offered up). THAT is unquestionable malpractice. Hopefully his/her peers had a chance to review your case and placed him/her on probabtion for doing a criteria based proceedure on an elective basis. I guarantee that if you or your child had a poor outcome that hospital would have been writing a MASSIVE check...and justifiably so.