Jill Stanek is a former Labor and Delivery Nurse and she calls foul on the story:
Jill Stanek says:
May 27, 2011 at 11:26 am
I just added another comment at Salon in response to Mikki’s rebuttal:
Mikki, there is a two-year statute of limitations for filing malpractice lawsuits. Again, if a doctor almost killed you, why didn’t you do something about it, if not for yourself but to save others from a quack?
I’ve had patients with placental abruption. The placenta is breaking away from the wall of the uterus. It can be minimal or it can be severe.
If minimal, the patient is sent home and watched, particularly if the baby is young.
If severe, the baby and placenta must immediately be delivered, either vaginally or by c-section (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placental_abruption). Without immediate intervention the mother will be bleed to death and, of course, the baby will die.
Your story has too many holes to recount, Mikki. If there were medical students present, then you were at a teaching hospital, and there most certainly were doctors available on the premises or on call to perform the necessary emergency surgery.
Your story defies logic, Mikki, I’m sorry. No doctor in a hospital would sit there and let a pregnant patient bleed to death.
The mere fact that the doctor who eventually cared for you transfused “two bags of blood” first indicates this wasn’t a dire emergency. Each bag required 1-4 hours to tranfuse (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/bt/bt_whatis.html). It would make no sense to force a patient supposedly bleeding to death to wait for surgery that would stop her from bleeding to death until she is given 2 pints of blood.
Name the hospital, Mikki. Name the doctor. Show me the charting.
You may really believe your story, Mikki, but it is fiction, and the editors of Salon were irresponsible to print it.
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