Posted on 09/10/2022 3:26:21 PM PDT by DFG
Conservative analyst and author Candace Owens claims staff at a Tennessee hospital attempted to hold her and her newborn daughter hostage after she gave birth earlier this summer - telling her she was not allowed to leave until they drew blood from the hours-old, perfectly healthy child.
Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, the 32-year-old slammed staff at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, while recounting the '24 hours of torture' she says she suffered after giving birth to her second child Louise on July 13.
The mother-of-two, who launches the new DailyWire+ podcast, Candace, on Monday, said the alleged mistreatment started after she declined antibiotics and contraction-inducing drugs while going into labor. She added that it culminated in staffers threatening to call child services on the right-wing commentator.
Owens - who married British Oxford grad George Farmer in 2019 - further accused staffers of engaging in a concerted effort to empty her wallet, by keeping her for over 48 hours so her stay was not covered by insurance.
When she refused, Owens says that a hospital pediatrician approached her and her husband as they tried to leave, callously telling the couple 'that she watched a baby die in the 47th hour because her parents refused to stay.'
The pair ignored the staffer, Owens says - despite the workers' false assertions that her insurance would likely not cover the visit if she went against medical advice and left.
When Owens responded that she didn't care, a social worker employed by the hospital asked the couple to sign a document that said they were aware that The Department of Children's Services (DCS) could pay them a visit for leaving against doctor's orders, according to Owens.
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Yes ma’am.
You don’t know the issue. This account says nothing about what really occurred
1. Attention seeker squirts out kid.
2. Attention seeker doesn’t get to boss the staff.
3. Attention seeker seeks attention.
“ I see more reasons for home births every day.”
Naw. You always want to be near a neonatologist without staff and equipment and ditto OB.
Is the PKU test not done at birth along with the usual cbc, blood type urine?
Going into a hospital can feel like going into jail.
My wife went into the hospital. After the preliminary tests, they said they would admit her to a room for observation once one was available. She waited on a stretcher in the hallway for about three hours. During that time, we saw a man with a gunshot wound, flanked by officers, rushed by on a stretcher. We decided to leave. The resident warned us that tests would not be covered by insurance if we left. Of course, we had no idea of the cost of tests. My wife finally got a room, was observed, then sprung the next day.
On another occasion my wife had a problem and was taken by ambulance to the emergency room. Her condition soon stabilized. She got a room soon thereafter. Later, a higher priority patient needed the room. She was moved into a large pen, divided only by curtains. My wife is very sensitive to noise and patients had radios and portable TVs to provide company for the night. She couldn’t take it anymore.
We called our daughter who works in the ER. She advised us to tell the doctor we were leaving. We signed a document acknowledging that we were leaving against doctor’s orders. End of story.
Our pre-Covid experiences are nothing like the hell some people have experienced at hospitals at the height of Covid hysteria.
The pain from heartburn is indistinguishable from the pain from a cardiac event. We eventually got the good advice to chew a Rolaids (calcium carbonate) as soon as the pain comes. If that does not work, call for an ambulance. That has saved us several trips to the ER. My wife now takes a calcium/magnesium supplement, and she has not had heartburn since.
You dropped an asterisk.
Sorry she’s overdoing this.
Even if so, the reasons on the other side are piling up.
That's part of a general trend of treating adults and citizens as infants in need of the constant tutelary despotism of experts and the state.
I'm an adult. If do something foolish, the onus and liability should be on me, not the hospital or the barkeep. And at my age, I'm probably a more competent judge of any impairment than anyone else.
Grr auto C
“Naw. You always want to be near a neonatologist without staff and equipment and ditto OB.“
Naw. You always want to be near a neonatologist WITH staff and equipment and ditto OB.
I got that. ;-)
“Is the PKU test not done at birth along with the usual cbc, blood type urine?”
oh psshhaaa!
Then there’s that
She was in there 48 hours.
Yes PKU is done within an hour. It’s a prick to the heel.
Our firstborn was a whopper: 10 lbs, 10 ozs.
Wife had him naturally (with an episiotomy). She was in the hospital for 4 days; could hardly walk for a week. That boy was walking at 9 months. At 10 months he was running and jumping in his crib, and did the highjumper ‘fosbury flop’ right over the fully raised side, and down to the hardwood floor. He cried for a bit, but was running around shortly after.
Medical Industrial Complex
Just what type of construction is booming? That’s right! Medical facilities.
“ Even if so, the reasons on the other side are piling up.”
Well…
The AMA condones abortion a long time ago. Once anyone does that it’s hell to pay
God bless Justice Thomas our nations foundation is spared. The AMA, insurance companies who paid/pay not so much
LOL Physicians don't do basic research. Most don't read the literature much less understand statistics. Power and effect size are foreign words to them.
So when, in the near future, the CPS is called because of the religious beliefs of the parents being considered a clear and present danger to the State, would you support that?
Full discloser, we did all the tests with the kids. No issues. No worries. But after the screeching of the last two years I am not sure I trust many medical providers like I did then.
Hence my comment, “the woman thanklessly does most of the work.”
well you should at least believe anyone has the right to determine who does what with their kid...
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