Past history about care on a Saturday

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My uncle was born on a Saturday, 1923, at Loma Linda hospital. My grandmother told me that she shouted for help in urgent need of attention from medical staff. None came. After hours in hard labor, he was born. Lack of oxygen to his brain because of the protracted labor. He was left with a mentality of a 3 year old. He died at the age of 60. My father, his older brother, was a doctor, and always carried deep resentment for a religion whose restrictions would cause nurses and doctors to ignore the cries of a patient's pain and panic. I would hope that some of their restrictions with regard to patient care have changed, but from what I have read, they haven't changed very much. Doesn't make sense for me that anyone with restrictions like that would choose any profession that might present a need to work on a Saturday.

No one here can answer for what might or might not have happened in a particular hospital 90 years ago. I doubt anyone here was alive then. I worked for an SDA medical center (not Loma Linda, but another SDA hospital in another state) for several years in the 1990s, and the hospital was fully staffed and all necessary care provided on Saturdays, same as any other day of the week. I doubt v. much that, even 90 years ago, SDA hospitals were left un- or understaffed on Saturdays and client were left to fend for themselves.

Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

' troll.....just joined today

Uh huh..broken fingernails, unperscrided happy pills and unanswered call bells from 1923. We're a troll playground today!

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
Uh huh..broken fingernails, unperscrided happy pills and unanswered call bells from 1923. We're a troll playground today!

Right!

Uh huh..broken fingernails, unperscrided happy pills and unanswered call bells from 1923. We're a troll playground today!

Ugh, is it still spring break?

Specializes in Critical Care.

Seventh Day Adventists believe saturdays are reserved for worship, and they also believe that caring for those in need of nursing and medical care is a form of worship and therefore have never just shut down their healthcare facilities on saturdays, so it sounds as though your family has developed it's own myth to explain a bad event. There's a common desire to believe when bad things happen it's someone's fault, but sometimes bad things just happen.

Ugh, is it still spring break?

When I modded a board a while ago we would see a huge spike in trolling during school breaks-go figure. And that is all this is, a troll.

Specializes in Reproductive & Public Health.

This makes no sense. I get to take days off because i am an atheist, but religious people can't? There's no logic in your conclusions here.

Specializes in LTC.

What is the point of your thread??? Healthcare was a whole different animal 95 years ago. No antibiotics, no intubations, no MRI's, etc. Nurses pretty much had no autonomy back then either. Their jobs back then would be more similar to that of a CNA.

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

We are very sorry for this tragedy in your family. However, we can't help to explain what happened so many years ago. Please contact the hospital and/or family members.

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