id Rashmi feels she have been wronged she needed to sue the Hospital . Sending chain emails might elicit sympathy but wont do much

A few things however i felt something to clarify

This Wockhardt hospital person………..What are they doing on this blog or anywhere else on the net, defending themselves & trying to build a case by responding to posts?

One sided emails and chain letters is also not the correct way to create awareness about this case. People and organisations should be able to defend their case… and should be given a chance to explain

If there was no negligence on their part & they had the evidence to counter Rashmi’s “false accusations’ they would have no problem ’saving their reputation’ in a courtroom.
I agree !

It is extremely brave of her to turn her grief into a cause to not allow other women to go through the pain of loss & a lack of even an apology from this Latha whatever.

This is Rashmi’s personal opinion . However asking all women not to go to dr latha becoz of her personal experiances is not only misleading but ridiculous.

At the very least the hopital should strip her of her license to practice or remove her from their staff if they wish to salvage an ounce of their ‘well-deserved’ reputation.

Only people with adequate medical experiance should decide that. This certainly does not need to be decided by bloggers and there comments.

Also, to Wockhardt…………unfortunately for you………on the internet, you are trying to beat google………..anywhere the hospital name or Rashmi & wockhardt is mentioned …….and worse for you…….tagged……………you’ll find yourself being maligned.
Soultion:- spend money on staff…..probably a special hire ………to ‘clean up’ this story for you online everywhere.

I cant comments on that since I dont have much idea of how internet works. But someone who works in a Hotel Industy for over a decace. I know that one bad customer does not necessarily mean that the service standards are bad. About the internet yes.. bad news travels faster that is true

r ……….get this Latha woman & other players……. to admit wrongdoing……..if they don’t, at least have the $$ & common sense to fire them.

Again this should be left to doctors who are a professional on their expertise and not to be decided by bloggers.

If there was no negligence on their part & they had the evidence to counter Rashmi’s “false accusations’ they would have no problem ’saving their reputation’ in a courtroom.

Methinks they are scouting the net for such posts ‘where the truth betold’ & spouting a story which the’d hope others would believe.
There are 2 basic issues here that make them look really ridiculous:-

1. In a 1st pregnancy a woman is innocent regarding the complications that can occur & the decisionmaking is left to the more’ informed’ doctor …..whom she implicitly trusts.
But the 2nd time around she has a better understanding of her own body’s messages & has a more individual decisionmaking ability in conjunction with her trusted doctor.
So- who does the hospital think they are fooling by trying to make everyone believe that Rashmi clearly understood the risks of the vaginal delivery after the c section ……..and yet went ahead with it.
Give me 1 woman who will risk losing her baby by even the slightest %.

2. Here is a woman who has lost her baby full term. There is no amount of money or retribution that will bring the child back.

It is extremely brave of her to turn her grief into a cause to not allow other women to go through the pain of loss & a lack of even an apology from this Latha whatever.
At the very least the hopital should strip her of her license to practice or remove her from their staff if they wish to salvage an ounce of their ‘well-deserved’ reputation.

Also, to Wockhardt…………unfortunately for you………on the internet, you are trying to beat google………..anywhere the hospital name or Rashmi & wockhardt is mentioned …….and worse for you…….tagged……………you’ll find yourself being maligned.
Soultion:- spend money on staff…..probably a special hire ………to ‘clean up’ this story for you online everywhere.

Or ……….get this Latha woman & other players……. to admit wrongdoing……..if they don’t, at least have the $$ & common sense to fire them.
Then apologize to Rashmi for her suffering on public forums & commit to not recruiting doctors like her who believe they are God or follow an ‘assembly-line’ mentality.

Now thats a better way to save face & rebuild a reputation on good grounds.

If Wockhardt is smart they will go this route.

Not everyone understands that the internet can destroy someone faster than a courtroom can.

You are commenting on the mental awareness of someone going through a physical experience, during which any physical sensation, sounds in the vicinity………are all registered with a level of awareness that is heightened.

The next time you are in an OT ( not generally anesthesized) or giving birth to a baby………..you may be qualified to comment on how believable the ‘weaker & more emotive’ person should be for being able to register details such as the ones mentioned.
Unless you represent the medical union at this hospital, put a sock in it.

Because of expected complications (which thankfully did not happen in my case) I was taken in the OT for a Vaginal delivery so that the doctors have everything if the need comes. Why was it not done in Rashmi’s case by the doctors ? She had a 0.5% chance of complications, so the doctors should have been prepapred and she should have been in the OT to start with.

I can write pages on how important a fraction of a second is in the medical world. But I am sure every one knows that for a fact. The hospital can now write what ever they wish to, to save their face, but such cases should be handled with extreme caution.

My thoughts and wishes are with Rashmi and I hope that she and Arnav gets the justice that they deserve.

Wonder what the law is, with respect to personal patient details, in India.

http://vijayashankar.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/a-reply-from-wockhardt-bangalore/#comment-698

Includes gems like ““All said and done, the mother should have seen the net and consulted experts, either before opting for the procedure or at the least atleast before her due date”

And then when I point out that the onus is on the DOCTOR to provide medical information, says “I did not ask the mother to consult the net for medical advice. Only idiots and mentally retarded people consult net for medical advice. And I find the incidence of such retardation higher among one profession !! I mentioned net just as a directory, to know the name of the experts. ”

Sigh. It’d be laughable if this guy wasn’t a doctor… Scary.

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me: Oh man!

Yes and No.

The Yes I Agree was for the “if that had been communicated by Dr. Latha Venkataraman in the first place, Rashmi would never, ever, have accepted this procedure.”
The No is for ”No mother would.”

I have show you places where the mothers are explained the complications of LSCS and VBAC and they choose VBAC
I agree that Rashmi may not have opted for this, but you cannot decide on the basis of all mothers
Heck
Even Pregnancy is associated with complications. Don’t go to the extent and tell no mother will accept to be pregnant

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me: Err…what??

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me: Suman, you want to take this? Though, this also has been replied to above.
And, pathetic, is it? Even if that’s all you get out of the case, it still isn’t as pathetic as losing your child, surely?

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me: No – no one is suggesting anything. We are talking about possible malpractice and negligence by the hospital in question.
And does it matter who was being consulted earlier? Really! All of this has been already said and answered. Please read all the comments above to understand what’s going on.

So you are suggesting that there shall be no more normal deliveries for mothers who has had a previous LSCS?

And then there is a hue and cry that doctors are doing caesarean section and not allowing normal deliveries “for money sake”.
The tendency to blame each and everything that a doctor does is very sad.

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me: I don’t think you’ve understood what the “hue and cry” is about. I’m allowing most of your comments. Except ones where you’re replying to someone else’s comments on her blog, which were a reply to a third person. The correct place to do so would be on the blog where you read it, not on mine.

1. Why is Dr. Latha’s notation in the OPD record regarding Dr. Prabha as her “co-consultant” made only on the 28th of Feb., AFTER Rashmi’s predicted due date? Would that be a good time for a patient who is past her due date to switch her obstetrician, or even make enquiries about the qualifications and credentials of the co-consultant?

2. Since Dr. Latha is such an experienced VBAC practitioner who follows ROCG and other foreign-body guidelines, please publish the guidelines she followed, and match Rashmi’s records against them.

3. Rashmi’s key question: “If I have paid for doctors who were fellows and members of the Royal College of Obstetricians, why was the registrar attempting to deliver me?”

4. Another key question from Rashmi: “Why did an experienced doctor like Dr. Prabha not recognize signs of uterine rupture? I was yelling with pain in the labour ward and kept pointing at my stomach and telling her that there was a ripping pain in my stomach. I complained of shoulder pain and chest pain in the OT she still did not recognize the rupture. She admitted that she knew of the rupture only when she opened me? Why?”

5. Registrar Dr. Shirley had announced that Rashmi would deliver by 1.30 p.m. What was Dr. Prabha doing in OPD at that time? Uterine rupture does not happen suddenly but over a period of time… during which Rashmi was attended by a registrar who is NOT an ROCG-qualified doctor.

6. Why did it take 43 mins to conduct an emergency C-section? Baby fetal heart rate was down to 58 bpm at 1.50 p.m. and baby was extracted at 2.33 p.m.

7. Why was the fetal monitor not connected in the OT? Is this what VBAC guidelines specify?

8. If the baby had a heartbeat of 180 bmp, how is it possible for the outcome to be a baby without heartbeat and respiration at birth?

9. Would an internal review with your own gynecologists and external gynecologists who are close aides of Dr. Latha be unbiased? Why have you refused to conduct a transparent review that includes the inputs of Dr. Prakash Kini and Dr. Narayanan, two obstetricians widely recognized as Bangalore’s seniormost obstetricians, as requested by Rashmi?

10. Finally: Please have this case put up for review in the next conference of BSOG and FOGSI and have the proceedings covered by the press.