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Awful story. The "need to be there" trumps common sense sometimes. Some people (even tough guys) cannot stand to see needles, blood, etc.
1 posted on 07/07/2005 1:20:29 PM PDT by Pharmboy
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To: Pharmboy

I can see it already... husbands will not be allowed in birthing rooms anymore due to "liability" issues. I wish all these lawyers would go to @#$#.


2 posted on 07/07/2005 1:22:07 PM PDT by conservatrice
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suing cause HE fainted? wtf????


3 posted on 07/07/2005 1:22:12 PM PDT by Tiger Smack (www.tigersmack.com <------- for LSU & SEC sports/news/stuff)
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The hospital isn't responsible for him not being able to stand the sight of blood. It's a personal condition; it just happens to some folks. I have no problem with blood but have seen people go pale and woozy just seeing a drop of it. They're responsible for their own comportment.


4 posted on 07/07/2005 1:22:54 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (6/30/05 budget deficit down http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0620/p17s01-cogn.html)
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Bad judgement on his part.  I was only there for the last five minutes of each of mine and never saw anything.  Know your limitations.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

5 posted on 07/07/2005 1:23:00 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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Tragic.


6 posted on 07/07/2005 1:23:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I am saying that the government's complicity is dishonest and disingenuous." ~NCSteve)
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"the lawsuit said, the hospital "owed him a duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable injuries resulting from his participation.""

Yeah, I'm sure everyone saw it coming!


7 posted on 07/07/2005 1:23:07 PM PDT by Moral Hazard (I question the bargaining power of the Union of the Snake.)
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"owed him a duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable injuries resulting from his participation."

Sad, but I don't see how this was a foreseeable injury. Guess that's why I'm not a lawyer.
8 posted on 07/07/2005 1:23:18 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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Check her immigration status first.


9 posted on 07/07/2005 1:23:39 PM PDT by Sir Gawain (When in doubt, cite the Commerce Clause)
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Maybe they should hand out football helmets to the Dad's?


13 posted on 07/07/2005 1:24:49 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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I guess Savage was right the other day--men shouldn't be in the delivery room. Especially weak kneed men with an aversion to needles--hint, hint.


15 posted on 07/07/2005 1:25:25 PM PDT by beaversmom
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The sight of the needle caused Steven Passalaqua, 33, to faint

Girlie-man.

16 posted on 07/07/2005 1:25:59 PM PDT by socal_parrot (Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!)
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When Mrs Pondman got her epi they asked me if I would faint....said it has happened before....

I thought the epidural was pretty cool, the doctor "missed" the first time and had to reinsert.


17 posted on 07/07/2005 1:26:15 PM PDT by Pondman88
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Unbelievable


20 posted on 07/07/2005 1:27:00 PM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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Hope they got a waiver. In any event, sometimes freak accidents just happen. Should have had a good life insurance policy - preferably one that doesn't exclude coverage for head injuries from aluminum protrusions.


22 posted on 07/07/2005 1:27:22 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Hmph my hubby was there for all 3 births. Only problem he had was getting the mask on wrong the first time and fogging up his glasses!
susie


25 posted on 07/07/2005 1:27:33 PM PDT by brytlea (Yes, there are Republican teachers...)
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When did personal responsibility become extinct?

How about "Hey Doc, I really don't deal with needles well. Maybe you should get someone else."

Or - Help hold, but don't look.

The event sucks, but we shouldn't have to turn the whole world in a giant Nerf planet so no one ever gets hurt.

Ever wonder why medical insurance is too darned expensive....


26 posted on 07/07/2005 1:27:46 PM PDT by Sax
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In June 2004, Passalaqua's husband, Steven Passalaqua, was asked by Kaiser staff to hold and steady his wife while an employee inserted an epidural needle into her back, court papers said.What? An epidural needle bothers a lot of dads even those who don't mind watching an IV insertion.
28 posted on 07/07/2005 1:28:59 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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I can remember a story told by my uncle that was in the Navy after WWII. His wife was set to pop and he requested leave to be there for the birth. His superior supposedly told him that he “was there to lay the beam and his presence would not be required at the delivery end.”

He was known to drink a bit and also pretty comfortable with embellishing things. It may not have happened to him – heck, it might not have happened at all. Makes a good story though. True, too.

30 posted on 07/07/2005 1:29:05 PM PDT by Who dat?
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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!! (not you, Pharmboy)

My son was born in July, 2003. I steadied my wife while they gave her the epidural several hours before our son was born.

His death was his own damn fault for being a freaking wuss. Sorry to use such "base" language here but, I feel it's true.

ANY judge worth his or her weight will throw this piece of S--- case right out and maybe hold the wife in contempt for bringing such a frivelous lawsuit.

What an f------ piece of s--- to bring this piece of s--- lawsuit.

Is there NO ONE that is responsible for his or her own actions or stupidity anymore?? Doesn't look like it.

GEEZZ this pisses me off!!

32 posted on 07/07/2005 1:29:38 PM PDT by soundandvision
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Our legal system marches on, crushing common sense in its path!


33 posted on 07/07/2005 1:30:20 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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