May 27, 2012
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A doctor in central Sweden, who broke the neck of an infant during a 55 hour long delivery after using the ventouse nine times, is being investigated by the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).
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lång
adjective
Lång means long, tall and can be used for height, distance or time.
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I lived in Eksjö for two years. When I was there, it was in Småland, 3.5 hours south of Stockholm. Did it move and not leave a forwarding address?
Seriously, though, this doc needs to have his career ended now before another unsuspecting couple winds up on his delivery table.
What bothers me, however, is the police investigation. I understand that the National Board of Health and Welfare is impotent and ineffective. But, is it really better to have the police investigate medical matters? Or, put differently, when did bad medical judgement become a crime?
Let me propose a better solution. The airline industry has vastly improved its safety record over the last several decades by empowering every employee to take responsibility for the safety of the flight. While the Captain is still in charge, the baggage handler can ground a flight if he notices something wrong with the airplane. Nurses need to be empowered to seek immediate remedy if they feel that a life is in danger. Every hospital has both nursing and physician leadership. Rather than pleading with the doctor to do a C-section, a call to the leadership of the hospital may have changed the course of events in this tragic case.
That sadistic butcher should never be allowed to touch a patient again.
How can a guy go through 5+ years of medical education and still be this stupid?
Every women can give birth naturally? If that were true, why is childbirth one of the main causes of death for young women where there is no medical care around? In older days and in many parts of the world today children and/or mothers die often in childbirth. This is complete bull!
Civilized society deals with this problem by developing medical procedures and medical help! Something he denied.
I am so sorry for the family and hope they can get some form of legal justice and wish that he can never ever practice again. Is his name known so people can be warned?
I was wrong.