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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re - patient/dr relationship above. What an infuriating comment.  Why must we always blame the victim?  I had a horrible birth and my sister said, you know, the friends I have who had traumatic births were generally the sort of people who didn't stick up for themselves. My sister is a good person - I'm sure you are too. But she has never had to struggle - sure, she has had to push for job promotions and opportunities like anyone - for herself the way one might in a health crisis. Or if you lost your home or had some other major trauma. Until you have had this sort of experience, please refrain from critiquing little Soleil's mother. She isn't even here to defend herself. [/quote]

I also had a traumatic birth experience (my daughter had sepsis) after a healthy pregnancy. I had so many people ask me why she was sick and what had happened and what I did to cuase her to be sick. It was really awful.

I think there's some part of human nature that doesn't like to acknowledge you can do the right things and still have a bad health outcome. It makes people start creating magical thinking where if you just do X (have a birth plan, speak up, exercise and eat healthy) then nothing bad will happen. I think it's also a reflection of our puritanical culture that thinks that bad things only happen to "bad" people.[/quote]

Again, this has nothing to do with the fact that he doctor in the story was extremely defensive which led to a loss of time and was probably due to the fact that he wanted to appear in control in front of his colleagues.[/quote]

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