Decapitated baby

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Not a lot of coverage on the baby that was decapitated during birth and the nursing staff that helped to try and cover it up.

This happened in July.

I'm an advocate for these nurses losing their licenses, and being criminally charged.

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I read that story. My heart hurts for the parents. I can barely stand to think about losing my son - and he's a grown man with kids of his own.

As a hospice nurse, I can understand the nurses' actions as described in the reporting I read. My first question is why arresr just the nurses? Were they the ones actually handling the forceps when the accident happened?

Quite the rabbit-hole ... 

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You can understand their behaviors?

Corpse/evidence tampering, obfuscation/deception to the family and to the medical examiner.

Need I go on?

Everyone who holds a license, that was part of that scenario, should lose it.

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SHH said:

You can understand their behaviors?

Corpse/evidence tampering, obfuscation/deception to the family and to the medical examiner.

Need I go on?

Everyone who holds a license, that was part of that scenario, should lose it.

I think there's not enough information to make that judgement yet. There's obviously much more to the story. Time will tell.

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Who else but nursing would swaddle the kid and hold him up through the window with a detached head, concealing the decapitation and the bloodshed.

Nursing would also be the ones to call the medical examiner (usually the charge or the house sup, never the doc)

 I've done many many times. This wasn't done, as the whole thing was a cover up.

Anyone in the room - complicit...

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Your first reply you state: "I can understand the nurses' actions"

Then you later state that we don't have enough information.

Which is it, and what (else) exactly are you looking to understand?

The physician decapitated the baby during the actual birth attempt through the lady partsl canal, and waited over 2 hours before changing her clinical approach, and then the dead baby was held up to the parents.

Failure to advocate is pretty clear from everybody in the room, both three physician and nursing.

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SHH said:

Who else but nursing would swaddle the kid and hold him up through the window with a detached head, concealing the decapitation and the bloodshed.

Nursing would also be the ones to call the medical examiner (usually the charge or the house sup, never the doc)

 I've done many many times. This wasn't done, as the whole thing was a cover up.

Anyone in the room - complicit...

There is more to the story than 'nurses tried covering up' a baby in that condition without the parents knowledge. 

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SHH said:

Your first reply you state: "I can understand the nurses' actions"

Then you later state that we don't have enough information.

Which is it, and what (else) exactly are you looking to understand?

The physician decapitated the baby during the actual birth attempt through the lady partsl canal, and waited over 2 hours before changing her clinical approach, and then the dead baby was held up to the parents.

Failure to advocate is pretty clear from everybody in the room, both three physician and nursing.

You are misrepresenting what I wrote. I notice that there is no reference to any reliable account if events. Convenient.

This thread is basically outrage Media. Have fun!

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Watch the 15 minute news conference, with the legal team. The lead lawyer is (also) a physician. They have clear knowledge of the medical records, participants, and the timeline of events.

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The medical examiner was not called by the hospital. The ME was called by the funeral home days later. The medical examiner has confirmed that they were not notified by the hospital at the time of death.

This is public record, and an easy fact check, which has been done on this side.

Having had to unfortunately call the medical examiner many times throughout my career, I am well versed in our responsibilities as nurses to see that this gets completed in an unexpected death.

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It's interesting to me that no one has offered links to reporting about this matter.  

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https://YouTube.com/watch?v=oOEcrHshHQk

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