Posted on 10/22/2009 9:05:29 AM PDT by Domandred
We had a mild tragedy in our family this month. Late last month we got pregnant with our second child.
Last week my wife started having severe abdominal pains with some bleeding and ended up in the hospital. Initially the doctors thought she just had an infection as everything looked fine and HGc(?) was still going up. They gave her some antibiotics for the infection and sent her on her way.
Two days later the bleeding got worse and pain got intensely worse. We went to the hospital again at 11:30pm Sunday night. This time her HGc was 6 points less than it was two days prior. Hospital put her on a morphine drip for the pain (it was that bad I guess). She was discharged at 5:00am Monday morning. With a Norco script for the pain and told pretty much all she can do it stick through it.
The ER referred her to a new OBGyn as her regular doctor was just a general practitioner for a followup appointment.
Yesterday was that follow up. I guess it went fairly well and the doctor even handled a few things (unrelated to the pregnancy/miscarriage) better than my wife's typical doctor.
He's the kicker though. On the OBGyn's patient paperwork that tells what was done for the visit. It looks to be printed by the hospital group and has little check boxes by each thing an OBGyn would handle.
Her miscarriage diagnosis was listed as...SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
Miscarriage doesn't appear anywhere on the paper.
I hear you, and I’m sorry for your loss.
I am sorry for your loss, Domandred. The State’s attack on our language and your wife by naming a miscarriage an abortion, is crudness to the highest degree.
Are you going to raise heck with the source of this outrageous medical form? They have no right to put into her medical record the word “abortion” when she did not have an abortion. That is a terrible thing to do to a mother who has lost her child!
I thought about it, then from several other replies sounds like it's the 'proper' medical term and been in use for a while as disturbing as it is for a first timer (and hopefully only timer) to experience it.
Sidebar: tag line or protest sign for anyone that wants to use it:
Abortion is NOT therapeutic, miscarriage is NOT abortion
thanks, my thoughts exactly!!!
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