How Doctors and Nurses Really Feel
About You and Your Birth Plan
Excerpts
from "Hard Labor" by Susan Diamon, B.S.N., R.N., a former Labor and
Delivery nurse.
In this
book, there are "stories which illustrate the dismay I felt on learning
that there are many people in obstetrics who simply do not give a damn
about their patients, who see patients and their families as "the
enemy," to be thwarted at every opportunity." p. 16.
"While one of the objectives of prepared childbirth classes is to produce informed consumers, it is not in the interest of a smoothly running, usually understaffed L&D unit to encourage patients to be actively involved in their own treatment decisions...so it is not surprising to hear the negative comments and belligerence that are voiced by staff members about prepared childbirth couples. They are resented because they require mor effort and more time." p. 66
"It is less complicated to care for a woman by the Policy and Procedures manual than to explain each procdure, to ask her opinion, to ask her permission, to keep her informed. It is easier to send her coach out of the room, to ban other visitors, to prohibit cameras and tape recorders, than it is to approach the event as a team, working toward the goal of maximal comfort amd safety for the mother and baby..." p. 66
"While one of the objectives of prepared childbirth classes is to produce informed consumers, it is not in the interest of a smoothly running, usually understaffed L&D unit to encourage patients to be actively involved in their own treatment decisions...so it is not surprising to hear the negative comments and belligerence that are voiced by staff members about prepared childbirth couples. They are resented because they require mor effort and more time." p. 66
"It is less complicated to care for a woman by the Policy and Procedures manual than to explain each procdure, to ask her opinion, to ask her permission, to keep her informed. It is easier to send her coach out of the room, to ban other visitors, to prohibit cameras and tape recorders, than it is to approach the event as a team, working toward the goal of maximal comfort amd safety for the mother and baby..." p. 66
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