Cape Fear Vally Medical Center, NC
Fox News is reporting a "disturbing" incident recently at the aptly-named Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, where doctors opened up a pregnant woman to deliver her child only to discover...no child.
No pregnancy.
"It's a......"
Here are the details from Fox News:
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"The North Carolina Medical Board recently reviewed a case where doctors and interns tried to induce labor on a patient, and then performed a Caesarean section, but found there was no baby inside the woman's womb, WTVD-TV reported.
Dr. Gerianne Geszler, who was in charge at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center the night of the incident, told the television station that several doctors examined the woman before the attempted C-section.
"They did an epidural on her, and when they opened up and made the incision, they saw a non-pregnant uterus," Geszler said.
Doctors quickly closed the woman's incision.
The North Carolina Medical Board issued the doctors a letter of concern, stating, "you attempted to perform a Caesarean section delivery on Patient A after a failed attempt at induction of labor ... and at the time of surgery, it was discovered the patient was not pregnant."
Geszler said an intern did an ultrasound before the surgery and could not find a heartbeat, and it was at this time that the patient convinced doctors to induce her.
The medical board said the intern did not have enough experience to make the "appropriate diagnosis."
It was determined that the patient suffered from pseudocyesis, which is the medical term for "false pregnancy." A person suffering from pseudocyesis may often have all the same signs and symptoms as a person who is actually pregnant, but there is no fetus.
Administrators at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center refused to comment on the incident."
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Well why not? This looks like a slam dunk for the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Oslo.
But seriously, folks....
...as I was saying, doesn't this type of incident cry out for a solution?
"We have the solution-government health care."
or...
"I have the solution."
Well, that's not quite what I had in mind either. I mean, we have to get to the bottom of this. I mean how could this possibly happen?
You Sir! You look like a doctor. Do you see how this could possibly happen in America in the 21st century?
"Uhhhh...yeaaaah."
Gary, weren't you repeating the "best health care system in the world" line a while back?
ReplyDeleteYou're not trying to imply that the health care reform has already gone into effect and this is the result, are you?
And government health care? I wasn't aware that we had that. Probably because we don't - but hey, who am I to ruin a talking point?
Lance,
ReplyDeleteLighten up and enjoy the spoof.
Ahhh...the old conservative standby when you point out an inconsistency.
ReplyDeleteSpoofs are fine and fun, but yours was to make a point - one that runs counter to a mantra that you liked to repeat.
Ok Scrooge, bash your head against the wall in rage while the rest of us are having a good chuckle.
ReplyDeleteI'm hardly "raging". If anything, I'm amused by your inconsistency. It's kinda funny, but unfortunately I'm laughing at, and not with, you.
ReplyDeleteAt least you're laughing. I was starting to wonder.
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