Verge wrote on Feb 17
th, 2011 at 8:50pm:
And you yourself have tried to politicise this for your own benefit.
The woman, regardless of whether or not she was going to save her baby or not, was poorly treated by the hospital staff and in all honesty had that been my wife I would have been making a song and dance long before the 2 hour mark. I also know I would have taken a swing at the Doctor when he finally decided to show up.
Dont give me the crap about hospitals under resourced or making it a political issue, it was lazy staff who failed to show due dilligence.
Guilty as charged!
As for the woman, her GP had already diagnosed a 'failed miscarriage' (typically such a diagnosis would be due to several days or even a couple of weeks of minor bleeding)...
This would have been confirmed at some point by an ultrasound - in our case, it was done by a referral for an ultrasound to be done at a private X-ray clinic (not at a hospital) which confirmed that the embryo/foetus had stopped growing/died at least 2 weeks prior...
Actually, I am a little surprised that they did the curette on the Victorian woman in the end - since the 'failed miscarriage' appears to have resolved itself when the woman went to the toilet (tho' there must have been a reason to go to the expense of tying up the resources of a theatre for the curette)...
It has been alleged that she was treated badly (insensitively and negligently on the medical side of things), then the individual staff and hospital culture need to be investigated and policies need to be change and/or reiterated...
Either way, we cannot trust everything we read in a newspaper - I know this for a fact because one of my relatives who underwent surgery at RNSH had been the victim of a vicious random gang assault last year (which was reported in both the print media and on TV - and, having visited him in hospital myself, I know that the angles that were taken in those reports were very misleading)...
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