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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi - I’m the previous new poster who had a bad experience at GW. I saw every doctor at the practice. Many, many doctors failed me - failed to recognize symptoms, signs, care needed and kind of left me high and dry in the aftermath. There was one doctor who followed up with my in the postpartum period - recognizing that my horrific situation had led to severe depression (which no one ever told me at the time). She has since left the practice. I was with the OBs, not midwives. Every practice is going to have a story like mine, I’m sure. Most people I know had good experiences at GW - it’s the hospital almost all doulas (which I had) recommend. I did not have a good experience and will never go back. [/quote]

Really sorry to hear this. Is this a common condition or something that you think was a result of preexisting and was more complex? I do not mean to sound dismissive but I would have huge concerns if they didn’t recognize HELLP or pre-eclampsia vs. something that a hematologist or something would be more familiar with. Still, a huge failure on their end to not recommend proper care if you’d been filling out the PPD surveys and they did not recommend any help.[/quote]

Coming back to this after a long time, but I am this PP and missed this question.

The doctors for my next delivery described what happened to me at GW as malpractice - pretty much every doctor I have seen since has the same opinion!

Multiple doctors missed many signs of my water breaking early, dismissed my concerns, etc. and that was just the beginning of what transpired. I ended up with severe complications, multiple hospitalizations etc, for what should have been a routine delivery - I had no complications or preexisting conditions. Honestly, I am lucky it was not worse given the negligence.

To add insult to injury - the follow up from my life altering delivery was absolutely abysmal. [/quote]

I’m sorry. Was your baby ok?[/quote]

My baby developed an infection during delivery and was immediately treated with IV antibiotics so we were separated after birth, which was horrific, but I know could have been much worse given the situation.

Due to my complications, I was hospitalized alone on the labor and delivery ward without my baby and no visitors allowed during late 2020. [/quote]

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