Litigation

Originally Posted by Warthog

Surely they had filled out the correct risk assesments for the mortar firing, and had several health and safety visits whilst shooting at you?!

you know i dont think they did!! Their health normally got a bit worse for wear if they were seen. A .50 Caliber machine gun from the reaction force sent out usually stung a bit!!

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by melody

You do your absolute best for someone and yet they insist on finding fault.

It sucks! (for want of a better term)


Women's expectations are too high and a large number do not expect to feel ANY pain at all during labour.

When they do, someone's got to be held responsible.

We once had a morbidly obese woman deliver in our unit. We had to order a special bed for her because she wouldn't fit on any of the regular ones. As you can imagine, getting an epidural to work on her was an absolute nightmare.

She ended up with an emergency Caesarean section, which was a MAJOR risk because she had to have a general anaesthetic.

She tried to sue for an ineffective epidural and the pain and suffering and that she wasn't warned that being obese would complicate her delivery!!

Well, having had an epidural but normal delivery with my first, a totally pain- relief free second delivery because it was so fast no-one had time to give me anything, and an emergency epidural section with my third I think I've pretty much run the array of deliveries, and I have nothing for the utmost respect for midwives. They put up with my swearing, terrible jokes and demands for a cigarette with good humour and even the one I kicked didn't hold a grudge, she just thought it was funny.

Please, Melody, don't let this make you give up a job I'm sure you love and are brilliant at!

Sorry to hear about this Melody - some people honestly! Giving birth is painful and traumatic - and thats a fact! both mine were but I didtn blame anyone she must be a bit dim

Originally Posted by Lissa

Please, Melody, don't let this make you give up a job I'm sure you love and are brilliant at!

I really do love my job as do all the midwives I know. But morale is very low at the moment and many are leaving.
In fact, tonight I am going out for a meal with the girls from work. It's a 'leaving do' for one of the midwives, who's decided it's not worth the hassle and has packed it in.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by melody

I really do love my job as do all the midwives I know. But morale is very low at the moment and many are leaving.
In fact, tonight I am going out for a meal with the girls from work. It's a 'leaving do' for one of the midwives, who's decided it's not worth the hassle and has packed it in.

Now that really is very sad, and very depressing.

[Bluepete]

Reminds me of the brilliant Billy Connolly sketch about fat people complaining that they weren't fat, they were "retaining water". To which he replied,

"You're not retaining water, you're retaining CHIPS"

Makes me cry with laughter nearly as much as stupid litigation claims. Have a look at this I found on Google, some of it makes you wonder, it really does!

she didn't have to rely on somebody else she could have had a home birth what was the problem Melody, could it be just another chav trying to get money for nothing?

Originally Posted by SmudgeK3

she didn't have to rely on somebody else she could have had a home birth what was the problem Melody, could it be just another chav trying to get money for nothing?

Without giving too much detail, in a nutshell, this woman's pregnancy, labour and delivery was pretty straight forward till the baby's head was delivered and the shoulders got stuck.

This is known as shoulder dystocia and is an obstetric emergency for which we are all trained. Within SECONDS, the emergency drill was put in place, and like I said earlier, the baby is alive and well and so is mum.

[Luckypants]

Hunni I'm sure you got nothing to worry about. This woman is being a bit of a tool,

Try not to take it personally. It's difficult I know when you have responded correctly in an emergency situation, done a good job and got a good outcome. Someone is trying it on and will be put right, I'm sure.

Mel, if you meet this woman again, then please ask her if this is her first child.

If she says "No" then look absolutely shocked and surprised.

When she asks "Why are you so surprised?"

Simply say, "I'm surprised someone would f*ck you TWICE"

ok, ok, so that was actually adapted from another joke, but I hope it cheered ya up a little