I had lunch with a classmate today that told me of a very disturbing story that she saw about a year or so ago on TV...not on the news but on one of those shows that does a documentatary on crimes, etc.
I am trying to see if anyone has heard of this story.
The story:
Parents brought a baby into the ER in respiratory distress...baby was under a year old, about 6 months, give or take.
At some point during treatment the baby appeared to stop breathing, the Pediatrician that was in the ER, that was very prominant in the area, pronounced the baby dead...the parents left the room.
A nurse was told to go to the baby to perform post-mortem care and when she returned to the room the baby was moving. She then noticed that the baby's color was returning--not exactly a case of post-mortem twitching.
She was able to get a full set of VS on the infant and screamed for the doctor to come back into the room in a panic to get the parents because the baby was still alive.
Supposedly the Pediatrician kept insisting to the nurse that the baby was not alive. The nurse said, "Are you crazy? Look at it? I just took a full set of vitals."
Then the nurse watched as the doctor picked up the baby, put it's hand over the baby's mouth and nose, and said, "We are not calling the parents back in here after I have already told them the baby is dead."
He suffocated the infant. The parents were never called in, the nurse didn't say anything out of fear, and the baby was buried.
Supposedly, about a year later, the nurse couldn't take it anymore and finally reported what the Pediatrician did, a full investigation..but she couldn't remember what happened to him.
Has anyone seen this?
To me, if I was the nurse, that would have been the day I would have lost my job....no way could I have sat there and watched a doctor suffocate and infant that I just took vitals on even if I had to call security or physically remove the infant from him myself.
