Iowa doctor accused of forced sterilization

[Holly_Hobby]

A 64-year-old Iowa Falls physician has had formal disciplinary charges filed against him by the Iowa Board of Medicine.

Dr. George H. Pfaltzgraff was charged on July 8 with performing a 2008 tubal ligation on a female patient without proper consent. According to the Iowa Board of Medicine, the woman told Pfaltzgraff that she did not want the procedure. There was no signed form of consent. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for Sept. 9.

Although the exact details aren’t available in the minutes of the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board, a Dr. George Pfaltzgraff was given an administrative warning in 2002.

Pfaltzgraff remains an active member of the staff at Ellsworth Municipal Hospital in Iowa Falls, according to the Associated Press.

http://iowaindependent.com/17586/iowa-doctor-accused-of-sterilizing-woman-against-her-will

Call Ellsworth Hospital and tell them what you think of Dr. Pfaltzgraff: [phone]

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Senator Coburn did the same thing,

as I recall, before he ran for office, when he was a practicing OB-GYN. I'm not sure I have all the facts exactly right, but I remember a story about a young woman asking for birth control, or having had a miscarriage, or something, and Coburn didn't approve of her sex life, and performed a tubal ligation on her.

How do these guys get away with this, I wonder?

[Holly_Hobby]

2. Rich white men n/t

[BlueIris]

3. Ugly misogynist doctors.

Which is most of the ones I meet, sad to say.

[hedgehog]

4. There's something very strange about this. Before any surgery in New York State,

a hospital employee comes in, reviews the proposed surgery and has you sign a consent form. You get asked again several times by nurses while being transported to the OR to guard against mix-ups. This doctor didn't drag this woman into an alley to do the surgery. Where was the staff?

[Wednesdays]

5. Agreed.

I rec'd this thread, with the understanding that we get all sides of the story before we "Call Ellsworth Hospital and tell them what you think of Dr. Pfaltzgraff."