My doctor dad used to get paid by some of the local Pittsburgh area babushkas in this stuff.
Posted on 02/07/2022 8:03:30 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
a charge of discrimination with the Illinois Department of Human Rights alleging the hospital tested her urine for drugs without her consent, and then reported her to the state’s child welfare agency despite her insistence that the positive result was because she ate poppy seed cake.
“There’s no medical reason to drug test all pregnant people as they come in for medical care and these kind of blanket policies really deter pregnant people from getting treatment and support. ... She’s coming in and the only reason they’re drug testing her is because she’s pregnant, and that is a form of sex discrimination.”
After she arrived, medical staff took blood and urine, which she assumed were being collected for reasons related to her preeclampsia.
She alleges she didn’t realize they had tested her urine for drugs until two days later, shortly before her labor was induced, at which point an obstetrician told her she had tested positive for opiates. The woman said she told nurses and doctors that she had not taken any drugs, and the only possible explanation was that it was a false positive because, the day she was tested and the day before, she had eaten makoweic, a poppy seed cake that’s a traditional Polish Easter dessert.
A hospital social worker then reported the woman to DCFS, which sent an agent to interview the woman at the hospital, the charge alleges. The agent told the woman that the baby could not go home with her unless a third party would be in the house with her and the baby at all times.
“The day (Ms. F) gave birth should have been the most joyful day of her life, yet Saint Alexius turned it into a living nightmare,”
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What we’re saying today is the logical, predictable outcome of nationalizing healthcare.
My doctor dad used to get paid by some of the local Pittsburgh area babushkas in this stuff.
They get their way with funding. Hospitals take government money which makes government the customer to satisfy. The patient is just the bagman.
My daughter spent a few years in Pittsburgh. Specifically the Jewish community near Squirrel Hill. She gained 25 pounds and made so many friends. A great community.
Keep it up, hospitals! Keep violating people’s rights! Pretty soon, NOBODY will trust you!
Doctors need to know what drugs people are on to treat them properly.
But.. I thought men got pregnant now too?
True, but she was admitted for high blood pressure and tested positive for opiates which lower blood pressure. Logic would dictate that her explanation of poppy seed laden ethnic food is a better fit than alleged drug use.
Did she have any other indicators of chronic opiate use?
Personally, it doesn’t bother me that they run a drug test, only that there was no informed consent.
__”My doctor dad used to get paid by some of the local Pittsburgh area babushkas in this stuff.”
My wife’s dad was a Physician out in the cornfields of Illinois.
Christmas time would bring a bounty of delicious foodstuffs.
A former US Navy ships Doctor, WWII and Korea, he did not bill his fellow veterans. Whatever they paid was it and he let it drop.
Going into town with him was an event, everyone knew him and would stop by to say hi.
Doctors need to know what drugs people are on to treat them properly.
Then they should test everyone who comes into the hospital for drugs, and they don’t.
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