Posts Tagged ‘obstetrics’

November 12 roundup

June 25 roundup

“Woman didn’t know she was pregnant, gives birth”

And now here comes the lawsuit against the hospital, blaming it for the baby’s deficits. Attorney Harold “Tripp” Sebring III has couched the suit against University Community Hospital in Tampa as one on behalf of the child, Brianna Rose Lumley, rather than the mother, Robin Lumley. Per Chicago psychiatric trauma specialist Alexander E. Obolsky, the suit represents “chutzpah”: “This is America. You’ve got to love this country. This woman doesn’t know she is pregnant, but somebody else should.” (Colleen Jenkins, “St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 7).

“It was at that moment that my patients started to feel like my friends again…”

“– and not simply like liability risks.” Still smarting from the trauma of an obstetrics malpractice trial, a young doctor gets a surprising and heartening patient referral. (Steven Erickson, M.D., “The true final verdict of my malpractice trial”, Medical Economics, May 16) (so far as I know, not the same S.E. who’s guestblogged for us).