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They are saying the doctor who "delivered" the baby was not employed by the hospital? Then what the fuck was that asshole doing there?
 
crandc said:
They are saying the doctor who "delivered" the baby was not employed by the hospital? Then what the fuck was that asshole doing there?
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For our first kid we used a private practice OBGYN. She only had an agreement with Meridian Park hospital in Tualatin for deliveries so we had to deliver in Tualatin. I don’t believe they are considered employees of the hospital. They just have an agreement with the hospital to practice medicine there.
 
Natebishop3 said:
For our first kid we used a private practice OBGYN. She only had an agreement with Meridian Park hospital in Tualatin for deliveries so we had to deliver in Tualatin. I don’t believe they are considered employees of the hospital. They just have an agreement with the hospital to practice medicine there.
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Exactly. That's pretty standard practice. I'm quite certain a large percentage of deliveries at hospitals are not performed by employees thereof.
 
Yes, but the nurses and other employees do work for the hospital. Someone should have called in other doctors who were on staff with the hospital.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Yes, but the nurses and other employees do work for the hospital. Someone should have called in other doctors who were on staff with the hospital.
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Well, was this doctor their OBGYN? And if not, then it is a legit question about why he was in the room.

I think the rest of the staff is most culpable for trying to hide the death from the parents.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
The doctor is a woman.
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Yes, and a highly experienced, board-certified OB. It's unfathomable that someone with her level of experience and credentials would commit this kind of act.

I also saw a note that the hospital is claiming that the baby died in utero, prior to the decapitation, as though that somehow excuses it...
 
So many questions, but first among them is why the hell did she not do a C section earlier? This country has a much higher rate of using C sections than any other, and this sounds like the birth that would qualify for an emergency C section.

What a horror story, I can’t even comprehend the trauma that family went through. Good lord. That doctor should lose their certification and no longer be able to practice medicine. This is just unbelievable, absolutely horrific.
 
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After reading a bit, I couldn’t possibly imagine the horror…

the only thing that comes to mind in a potential defense of the people in the room is, maybe they had planned on letting the parents know the details of birth, but wanted to hide the corpse from sight, given the already high level of stress and exhaustion the parents, she, was going through at that moment? They planned on telling the full story, but did not think showing the actual baby at the moment was a good thing to do?

Something like the context of not wanting a child to see thier dead parents in a situation where the child is coming home from school to a homicide found of the child’s parents in the home? You would want to keep the child out of the house to not have the actual visual?

That is the only thing I can think of that might have been the reasoning to hide the corpse from the parents. To then brief them in full after their/her levels were stabilized enough to handle the details of the situation? 10 hours of birth can be exhausting for both parents at that point. Not just the mother. Of course the mother is feeling the bulk of the exhaustion, neither parent was likely having a clear and lucid brainwork’s and just following doctors direction?
I would think that type of news could possibly put some individuals into shock even?

What a horrific story nonetheless. Heart goes out to the mother and father.
I know when Alisha was informed she couldn’t have kids it broke our hearts, but I can’t even imagine her having gotten pregnant, having a still birth and then getting that news. I could easily see us going into shock having planned for 9 months to have a child, to then have it stillborn.
Just a tragic story.
 
SharpeScooterShooter said:
After reading a bit, I couldn’t possibly imagine the horror…

the only thing that comes to mind in a potential defense of the people in the room is, maybe they had planned on letting the parents know the details of birth, but wanted to hide the corpse from sight, given the already high level of stress and exhaustion the parents, she, was going through at that moment? They planned on telling the full story, but did not think showing the actual baby at the moment was a good thing to do?

Something like the context of not wanting a child to see thier dead parents in a situation where the child is coming home from school to a homicide found of the child’s parents in the home? You would want to keep the child out of the house to not have the actual visual?

That is the only thing I can think of that might have been the reasoning to hide the corpse from the parents. To then brief them in full after their/her levels were stabilized enough to handle the details of the situation? 10 hours of birth can be exhausting for both parents at that point. Not just the mother. Of course the mother is feeling the bulk of the exhaustion, neither parent was likely having a clear and lucid brainwork’s and just following doctors direction?
I would think that type of news could possibly put some individuals into shock even?

What a horrific story nonetheless. Heart goes out to the mother and father.
I know when Alisha was informed she couldn’t have kids it broke our hearts, but I can’t even imagine her having gotten pregnant, having a still birth and then getting that news. I could easily see us going into shock having planned for 9 months to have a child, to then have it stillborn.
Just a tragic story.
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This family needed to be told the truth immediately. You lose a child during childbirth the mom is going to run through a million different scenarios wondering what she did wrong or if only she would have done something different. That's normal grieving.

I very much doubt the hospital didn't tell the family to save them from how horrific the death was. They were covering their asses. And also that's not their right to do that. That child's death has been ruled a homicide. Any delay in getting statements from employees, the doctor, and the family is covering up a crime. Instead of documenting exactly what happened immediately after it happened now you're trusting people's memories days and/or weeks after it happened.

That's not how you get justice for the child or the family.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
This family needed to be told the truth immediately. You lose a child during childbirth the mom is going to run through a million different scenarios wondering what she did wrong or if only she would have done something different. That's normal grieving.

I very much doubt the hospital didn't tell the family to save them from how horrific the death was. They were covering their asses. And also that's not their right to do that. That child's death has been ruled a homicide. Any delay in getting statements from employees, the doctor, and the family is covering up a crime. Instead of documenting exactly what happened immediately after it happened now you're trusting people's memories days and/or weeks after it happened.

That's not how you get justice for the child or the family.
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I read the first post and article and posted. I missed the second post about going directly to the funeral home. And not sure of the time frame. I was thinking initially. Like reveal the full details a few hours later, not days.
I agree with you.

I still feel not letting them see the corpse might be in their best interest, but they needed to know the full truth soon after and then let the parents determine what they would prefer to do.
 
I am more interested in prevention. From the photo it looks like the mother was obese, which is a risk factor. Did she receive proper care for high risk delivery? Why wasn't Caesarian performed when she was in distress? How can any doctor yank an infant by the head?
 
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With our first kid we were in a similar situation. Her head was too damn big and she couldn’t make it down the pipe. My wife was in labor for over a day before they finally decided that she wasn’t coming and we needed to do a C section. She had a big ring around her head because it wouldn’t fit. So it can definitely take some time before the decision is made to opt for surgery. This is just terribly sad.

I can’t even imagine what they must have gone through. We put a lot of faith in our doctors.
 
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