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> The women reported signs of mistreatment, such as being verbally abused, having their requests for help go unanswered, having their physical privacy infringed
by logicalmonster 3y ago
> The women reported signs of mistreatment, such as being verbally abused, having their requests for help go unanswered, having their physical privacy infringed upon and receiving threats to withhold treatment.
I hope it goes without saying that I don't want anybody to be mistreated or even to feel like they're not getting proper and supportive care, but I really wonder about some of these self-reported incidents.
Some really dumb people might describe a doctor saying something like "I told you this before. You say you want a healthy baby, but you need to quit the recreational drug use and drinking while you're pregnant" as verbal abuse.
You can come up with a million scenarios like this during the course of a pregnancy where an idiot might interpret a doctor's genuinely compassionate efforts to help them as "abuse".
- pleoxy 3y agoThat conversation should happen at the beginning of treatment. Which doesn't happen at a hospital. This is taking about actual birthing. There is little, if any, individualization at hospitals. It's a pretty horrible place to have a baby. Invasive care, constant interruptions, questioning decisions, sometimes IGNORING decisions entirely to do whatever the heck they want. Threatening to cease care if you don't comply, yep. Honestly, I'm surprised the numbers are this low. Most people probably just comply with everything, that's the smoothest path through.
- logicalmonster 3y ago>This is taking about actual birthing. Please correct me if my interpretation of the article is incorrect, but that doesn't seem to be the case. For what it's worth, the report mentions maternity care, pregnancy, and delivery care. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0822-vs-maternity-mistreatment.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0822-vs-maternity-m...