• British doctor accidentally decapitated baby in mother's womb while carrying out
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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/british-doctor-accidentally-decapitated-baby-in-mothers-womb-while-carrying-out?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&xtor=CS1-10#link_time=1526020075 That's fucking terrible
Can't imagine the damage to both the doctor and the family, it's horrible.
Not the first time sadly
That doctor fucked up so bad that they should get jail time for it. She literally yanked on the babies legs to get it out. The article reads like a horror story.
I don't even want to imagine what that must have been like for the mother. Jesus christ...
I'm gonna be honest seems purely like the doctor's fault here.
What a nightmare christ..
article makes it sound like she was "too busy to be there" or something. Literally trying to pull the baby out. Is the coffee break policy so shit that it stresses docs out?
"I was not given gas and air - I was in pain. I had the doctors putting their hands inside me and I had them pushing on my stomach and then pulling me down," she said. "I tried to get off the bed but they pulled me back three times and just said they had to get the baby out. "They twice tried to cut my cervix and nobody told me they were going to do it. There was no anaesthetic. I said to them 'it doesn't feel right, stop it, what's going on, I don't want to do it', but nobody responded to me in any way." yo what the fuck
Actually no, pulling on the legs means the baby is coming out the wrong way and needs to be removed quickly before it suffocates and dies.
No shit, but you have to go about it the right fucking way!
You literally have minutes before the baby is brain dead.
this was clearly an emergency as the baby was almost in cardiac arrest. you need facts before assuming negligence.
she was told that they'll perform a C-section
How hard do you have to pull for the head to come OFF? Surely before you get to that point the thought crosses your mind that maybe you shouldn't do that?
Probably has something to do with the fact that the baby was only 25 weeks old, but I'm definitely surprised as well.
I guess so, I always thought skin was really tough. Some pretty crazy stuff happens because of how tough it is sometimes
Baby skin is very thin and prone to easy bruising/cracking, same goes with bones and other organs. Its not till later that skin/bones become more developed and more resistant to physical stress.
she was told by a nurse. they dont have final authority in medical emergencies. people aren't quite grasping that this situation was part of an emergency scenario.
Unless I'm missing something, doing exactly that is standard procedure.
performing an emergency c-section takes a long time to prepare and if someone is dying, you haven't got 10 minutes. this was a complicated birth emergency but the press are really adamanent to put it in a way where it was a straight forward situation.
this sounds like a botched birth situation for both mother and doctor. she was delivering it at 25 weeks -- that's an entire SIXTEEN weeks before the average due date of 41 weeks. Even if the baby was successfully delivered, the chances of her and the child having tons of problems would've been extremely high. Judging by the article, it also seemed like the doctor was in a rush, so there must have been some life-threatening reason that the doctor chose to deliver at such an early time. It might have just been a bad decision, but there's a ton more we don't know about yet.
I would be interested where Dr Vaishnavy Laxman did her training
this is some horror movie shit what the fuck, i want to cry reading this jesus
As others are saying, you guys need to understand that this was a situation where the doctors had literally minutes to get that baby out before it died. Performing an emergency c-section would likely result in the death of the baby regardless due to the time it takes to perform the procedure. She wasn't YANKING on the legs, she was applying traction, which you may thing is a glorified term for yanking but it isn't. They were pulling, yes, but that's about all they could do at the time. Babies, especially ones that are delivered extremely early (like this one - nearly 15 weeks), have very soft skin, bones, and their muscles are barely developed. They can literally be ripped apart quite easily which is what happened here. The whole thing is horrific, but there's more at play than just "OH GOD THAT DOCTOR IS AN IDIOT WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING". Exactly this.
I understand that the baby had to come out quickly she should have just done the fucking C section. The baby still might have died but at least you would have saved a woman from being completely traumatized by not telling her anything, holding the her down while you cut her cervix without providing pain relief ultimately (Jesus Christ) for her baby to die anyway in a gruesome and terrifying way. The risks of doing it this way we're too great Even her colleagues believe she made the wrong desicion.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6258803/dr-vaishnavy-laxman-doctor-decapitated-baby-ninewells-hospital-dundee/ Better article. There are no excuses guy, just stop.
The Sun? oh im so sorry i will stop, forgive me.
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