Posted on 07/08/2013 9:16:54 PM PDT by SovereignVA
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — More and more of your medical records are being made available online. But do you know what’s in those records? Do you understand what your doctors mean when they use certain terms? This FOX6 investigation could help you in the future.
In 2009, Andrea Christian lost a child. ”I did at one point see the heartbeat and then you don`t see it,” she remembers.
“It hits you all at once.”
She recently changed doctors and requested her medical records. She couldn’t believe what she read.
“I just felt like they had ignored that I had lost a child,” Christian says.
The doctor had called her miscarriage an abortion.
“I’ve had a lot of stress just thinking about this,” Christian explains. ”That’s not what happened to me. I did not have an abortion. I had a miscarriage.”
She tried to get her records changed, but the hospital refused, writing her a letter. It said “health professionals use the terms miscarriage and abortion synonymously.”
Medical professionals say sometimes the word “spontaneous” will be written before the word “abortion” to indicate a miscarriage. The words “elective abortion” mean a patient chose the surgical procedure.
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Actually, the whole thing is lazy, giving credence to the great statement of my college biology teacher: when you simplify, you lie.”
The two words are not synonymous - doctors have become illiterate. A spontaneous abortion occurs early on; often before the woman knows she is pregnant, and even after, she might not know what all the bleeding and cramping was about. A miscarriage occurs later, often involves labor. You lose an identifiable baby.
The word ‘abortion” is an abortion.....it’s really MURDER. A Miscarriage is an act of God.....Murder is an act of the Mother.
The woman should have picked up Mr. Webster’s handy book and looked up abortion. http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/abortion The doctor was correct even by the devout Bible scholar Noah Webster’s definition of the word in his 1828 Dictionary.
The problem with people today is that they receive too much information from sources that don’t know what they are talking about, using words that have many meanings. The general media and politically correct individuals/groups are the major culprit information source.
People must understand that many fields have their own specific terminology with well defined definitions that do not always match that of the general media’s usage or the dictionary’s definition. Medicine, Law, the Trades, etc.
Think of all the words the far left has bastardized: gay, ...phobia. hateful, racist, ...
Several people who are very close to me have the “spontaneous abortion” description in their medical records, and I don't think they mind the words, just the loss of an innocent life. What is normally called "abortion" is usually described by physicians as something like "elective abortion", although I prefer "recreational abortion".
abortion (AB)
Type: Term
Pronunciation: ă-bōr′shŭn
Definitions:
1. Expulsion from the uterus of an embryo or fetus before viability (20 weeks' gestation [18 weeks after fertilization] or fetal weight less than 500 g). A distinction made between abortion and premature birth is that premature infants are those born after the stage of viability but before 37 weeks' gestation. Abortion may be either spontaneous (occurring from natural causes) or induced (artificially or therapeutically).
2. The arrest of any action or process before its normal completion.
miscarriage
Type: Term
Pronunciation: mis-kar′ăj
Definitions:
1. Layperson's term for spontaneous expulsion of the products of pregnancy before the middle of the second trimester; no longer accepted in clinical usage.
Synonyms: spontaneous abortion
We keep conceding the language to the left.
Pro-Life? Arguably not if you believe some people should be executed or stopped on the spot, even if they die as a result.
Pro-Choice? Arguably not if you believe people should not be allowed to choose to arm themselves or to deny service for religious reasons.
In regard to the abortion issue, people are for abortion-on-demand or against abortion-on-demand.
"Spontaneous Abortion" is a medical term and has been for a long while.
Should the language of medicine be "living" or should we learn what the words mean? Should the language of the Constitution be "living" or should we learn what the words mean?
Euphemisms are powerful things.
Consider that "miscarriage" is a euphemism for "spontaneous abortion".
The article's argument that a patient's objection might be based upon ignorance or a misunderstanding of terminology is insulting.
The truth can be insulting, but it's still the truth.
You really have to learn to talk medical in nursing also, but those that work with insurance’s have got to go nuts with so many rules etc....As a nurse, the first time I saw SOB I had to laugh....shorthand for short of breath..didn’t mean the patient was a nasty sob...
The medical profession has always called a miscarriage an abortion — even before abortion was legal. Usually the word “spontaneous” was attached to the word “abortion”. I know because I used to be a medical records secretary in my youth.
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