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[quote=Anonymous][quote]How is the malpractice litigation in the UK? Can you sue your doctor for several million dollars if something goes wrong? Here in the US they are liable up to their eyeballs. Hence the over cautious approach to many things. Including strapping.
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We have free government healthcare on the NHS and most people have both home and hospital births on the NHS.
If you are talking about leaving a swab inside of you or the surgeon botching the surgery(which rarely happens) then yes the health trust or hospital would be accountable.
But they certainly do not strap any patients arms down.

I spoke to someone from a well know UK childbirth organisation that also knows the legal side. And she said that strapping women down to OR tables is not a practice in the UK. And such action without the woman's consent would lead to charges of assault and battery for any doctor or healthcare person found doing this.
If you watch the TV UK birth program One born every minute UK you will see that none of the moms are strapped down.
Yet when I watched the US TV show A Baby story and Baby ER I did notice the moms arms tied down. But then that's the US for you!

But I also pulled up some posts from this UK baby form on which 1 American mom from the USA was telling an expectant mum due to have an ELCS that her arms might be strapped down. And the other moms on that thread all from the UK were saying "NO that did not happen to them."
[url]http://www.fertilityfriends.co.uk/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=k0gccn9trv7pcfi471gr2ec1s3&topic=140161.0;nowap[/url]

And also see this other UK form thread
[url]http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/pregnancy-64/birth-labour-256/982374-c-section-questions-all.html[/url]

and this
[url]http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childbirth/2298532-C-section-Question-Are-Your-Arms-Strapped-Down-During-A-C-Section-In-The-UK?messages=100&pg=1[/url]

in which another mom from the USA asked this question and this never happened to any of the UK moms, none of them had their arms tied down. And note the comments on both threads from some who were nurses in the UK who had assisted at many C Section(in the UK) and had never seen arms strapped down. Which I think indicates how unknown this practice is in the UK.And the members on the UK forms were shocked that this happens in the USA.
Although it's true that not all posters on forms tell the truth since anyone can post on a form, I think most of those posters on those threads were genuine and we talking of their own experiences and none were restrained, and the few moms that were were moms who had their C Sections outside the UK.

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