Canada care: A woman miscarries while waiting for hospital bed

An official admits they “dropped the ball”. Really:

Dr. Chris Eagle says health officials “lost the human touch” in dealing with Rose Lundy, 34, who was three months pregnant.
Her husband, Rick Lundy, had pleaded with emergency room staff at Peter Lougheed Hospital to help his wife find privacy.
But he was told there were no beds and she was left to go through the experience in full view of about 40 people.

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Samson Isberg
- and what treatment known to man could possibly prevent a first trimester abortion? At the hospital where I work, we don’t usually admit spontaneous abortions when they call us, but tell them to stay at home and come next morning during office hours. That way they can at least have the privacy of their own home, and the abortion will often be complete when the women come in the next day; an ultrasound to rule out the odd extrauterine pregnancy, and they’re off again.
From the article, it seems that the medical resources were limited. If so, it must be correct to allocate what resources you do have to patients where the reseources can make a difference; early pregnancy miscarriage is not one of them as there is no cure or treatment.
Anonymous
I believe the point was this (quoted from the article linked):
“Eagle, the region’s executive vice-president, says there should have been some way to give Rose Lundy privacy even if no bed was available.”
Not that you have to commit resources needed elsewhere to a patient who cannot benefit from them. Just take a minute to care about people.
Anonymous
I agree with both posters. I doubt there was anything the hospital could have done to prevent an early spontaneous abortion. Most of the time they don’t really even require medical attention, let alone hospitalization. But, I do think they dropped the ball on not being able to at least get her behind some sort of curtain, lying down with some privacy. Even though they are a relative non-event physiologically speaking, a spontaneous abortion can be extremely traumatic from an emotional standpoint, especially if the women doesn’t really understand what is going on.
Anonymous
Isberg, I’ve read your rant about a similar case…both times you missed the point. The issue is not that the abortion could have been prevented, but that the patients can be monitored for complications, adqequate treatment given if necessary (first trimester abortions are usually incomplete, and curettage more often than not necessary to empty the uterus completely.) Notwithstanding the need for tratment, being left to abort in front of a crowd is inexcusable.
Anonymous
Why is it inexcusable…ingrates like yourselves SHOULD be treated like animals. I don’t see anything wrong with what happened here…
Anonymous
It’s Canada dude, so they’re not ingrates. They don’t sue just because it beats working an honest job for a living, like in this fucked-up country.
Anonymous
I tell you what. Any medical professional who thinks this kind of treatment is A-OK, needs to be working in some third world country. I’m starting to think the medical profession of today is dragging this ocuntry to the gutters. Notice I said medical professionals not the general public.
You guys should be ashamsed and hang up your medical bags before you kill someone.
Anonymous
I did “hang up my medical bag”. And not because I was a bad doc. It was because I got tired of being afraid every time I discharged a patient that he would leave the ER, go out and use cocaine, drop dead, and then the sodomites would swarm like green flies on shit. After this happened to me once I said “enough” Who the hell needs crap like that?

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