To: ilovesarah2012; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; ...
RE :”
People don't realize the risk we're taking by taking care of these patients,” the newspaper quoted Dr. Albert Triana of South Miami as saying. “There's more risk of something going wrong and more risk of getting sued. Everything is more complicated with an obese patient in GYN surgeries and in [pregnancies],” he told the newspaper.
It is not illegal for doctors to refuse overweight patients, but it has medical ethicists worried. So far, the weight cutoffs have been enacted only by South Florida ob-gyns, who have long complained about high numbers of lawsuits after difficult births and high rates for medical-malpractice insurance.”
I read something interesting a few years ago:
Obese women were more likely to have babies suffering from spina bifida, heart defects, malformations connected to the genitals and bowels, missing toes, fingers, arms or legs, a hole in a diaphragm, navel defects and a condition called gastroschisis where organs protrude through the abdominal wall. At : Birth defects more common with fat mothers (07 Aug 2007)
In the USA you know who gets sued for birth defects?
28 posted on
05/17/2011 8:25:52 AM PDT by
sickoflibs
("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
To: sickoflibs
Have to wonder how some of those women got pregnant in the first place!
To: sickoflibs
this is a head scratcher really ???
"fat" preggos ??? really ???
yeah i know, 'morbidly obese' vs 'pregnant' is a no brainer, but some wimmin simply gain a LOT when the preggo hormones go into motion...sounds like the trend of suing OB specialists is gaining speed...
58 posted on
05/17/2011 9:18:24 AM PDT by
Gilbo_3
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