Womb as waiting room: Hospital OBs make babies wait

From: Todd Gastaldo (tgastaldo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:38:36 GMT

WOMB AS WAITING ROOM:

HOSPITAL OBs MAKE BABIES WAIT...

Reporter DANIEL J. COSTELLO is doing a story on the reasons hospital wait
times can't be reduced...

<danieljcostello@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1102446664.071877.256760@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I am a reporter researching a story for a national newspaper on the
> reasons the medical industry can't reduce wait times in doctor's
> offices, hospitals etc. Does anyone have an interesting story they
> would like to share with me? If so, my email is
> danieljcostello@hotmail.com. Thank you. Dan.
>

Daniel J Costello
danieljcostello@hotmail.com

Daniel,

Hospital OBs are making babies wait - closing birth canals up to 30% and
KEEPING birth canals closed up to 30% when babies get stuck - and lying
about it.

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2983

One reason the medical industry won't reduce the bizarre OB-forced wait: It
is LUCRATIVE to have OBs close birth canals up to 30% and "save the day"
with medications and surgery.

Failing to reduce the wait is also lucrative from a medico-legal
perspective: Reducing the wait - stopping the bizarre OB practice of
closing of birth canals up to 30% - would be tantamount to admitting that
hospital OBs have been committing massive criminal negligence that sometimes
escalates to criminally negligent homicide (i.e., sometimes babies DIE from
being made to wait).

Neither hospital administrators nor OBs have enough money to pay for the
inevitable civil damage awards - and no one wants to spend time in prison -
so hospital OBs continue to make babies wait.

Please report on hospital OBs making babies wait.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
todd@chiromotion.com

PS1 Temporary asphyxiation: Making babies wait - keeping birth canals
closed when babies get stuck - tends to temporarily asphyxiate babies.

Once the baby is born - temporary asphyxiation is imposed AGAIN - there is
NO waiting - the baby's umbilical cord is immediately clamped to rob the
baby of massive amounts of blood and/or dash across the room to resuscitate
the baby (I am not making this up) - or to get a cord blood pH sample for
the hospital or OB's defense if the parents later sue over the birth.
See Babies gasping: Michigan sheriffs to do "child abuse raid" on hospitals?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2618

(My thanks to Donna Young for calling my attention to the temporary
asphyxiation OB felony - and to Kelly Moscarello for calling my attention
back to it when
her little Bella suffered cerebral palsy after an unthinking paramedic aped
his MD handlers and immediately clamped the cord of a baby who was not yet
breathing.)

SUMMARY:

1) Hospital OBs should NOT make babies wait to be born (that is why mom has
come to the hospital after all); and 2) AFTER babies are born, *hospital
OBs* should be made to wait - until the cord has stopped pulsating and the
baby is pink, breathing and no longer in need of resuscitation.

PS2 Daniel, do you also work for the LA Times?

LA TIMES: WEEKLY SECTIONS: HEALTH

Editor: David Olmos
Deputy Health Editor: Tami Dennis
Staff Writers: Daniel Costello, Melissa Healy (DC), Hilary MacGregor,
Valerie Reitman, Shari Roan, Jeannine Stein
http://www.latimes.com/services/newspaper/mediacenter/la-mediacenter-editorialstaff,0,1090476.htmlstory

I'll cc the LA Times Daniel Costello et al. (also, LA Times Health Editor:
Julie Marquis and Staff Writers: Steven Hymon, Charles Ornstein)

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