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In reply to the discussion: Forced C-Section [View all]elleng
(130,860 posts)5. 'Hospital records show
that the cesarean section was approved by the hospital's legal department and Dr James J Ducey, the director of maternal and fetal medicine.
'The woman has decisional capacity. I have decided to override her refusal to have a c-section,' he wrote in her case notes.'
'approved by the hospital's legal department' NOT good (and I'm a lawyer!!!)
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With her second baby, my daughter very much wanted an epidural (which she had wanted with her
CTyankee
May 2014
#36
WARNING for Americans: it's in the Daily Mail, so very likely to be untrue or distorted.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2014
#31