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To: heartwood

Preeclampsia is treatable by the modalities you pointed out and in the article that I am sure you read or you wouldn’t be arguing with me she was non compliant with the treatment

There is no law against a spontaneous premature delivery

The patient and husband are portrayed as happy with tge pregnancy. How does that coincide with no insurance. Morbid life threatening obesity no sign of the husband in the story beyond tgat statement


6 posted on 01/11/2024 1:05:00 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

A woman with mild pre-eclampsia can go home on blood pressure meds, home monitoring, frequent follow up with obstetrician.

Yeni Glick seems to have not understood the need for compliance, or not had the resources to do so.

A woman preventing with severe, imminently life threatening pre-eclampsia shouldn’t be sent home. It doesn’t matter if she was compliant or not beforehand, it doesn’t matter whether she will be compliant at home. She is not truly stable.

The New Yorker author talks about doctors being afraid to suggest abortion, but they don’t seem to have told her that she and the baby could die if she went home either. They don’t seem to have suggested that a very early induced delivery might be necessary.

Although she does say that very premature babies have high mortality and high disability rates, but that is the author dismissing early delivery in favor of abortion, not the patient or her doctors doing so.

The article said after.the initial ICU stay, they determined she didn’t have pre-eclampsia. I would guess they got that wrong. Diabetes, injured lungs, cardiac overload, and pre-eclampsia.


7 posted on 01/11/2024 1:31:04 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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