Hi all,
Just an observation to the reported comments
in the 'killing fields' article below about ACMI Vs AMA !!!
"The college's Queensland
President Jenny Gamble said the Birth Centre at
the Royal Brisbane Hospital was being used as a scapegoat and was at the
centre of "a turf war" between private doctors and midwives.
Ms Gamble said a few obstetricians had been "bullying and slagging" the
birth centre since it opened 10 years ago as a provider of midwifery
care to pregnant women in a home-like environment within the hospital."
"The AMA has criticised the centre after an emergency last weekend when a
baby's shoulders got stuck during birth.......
the Royal Brisbane Hospital was being used as a scapegoat and was at the
centre of "a turf war" between private doctors and midwives.
Ms Gamble said a few obstetricians had been "bullying and slagging" the
birth centre since it opened 10 years ago as a provider of midwifery
care to pregnant women in a home-like environment within the hospital."
"The AMA has criticised the centre after an emergency last weekend when a
baby's shoulders got stuck during birth.......
"In the incident last weekend,
the midwife facilitated a birth
competently and was actually complimented on rounds to say she had done
competently and was actually complimented on rounds to say she had done
an excellent job. The mother and
baby are fine. I believe they were
discharged the next day."
discharged the next day."
"Midwives deal with difficult situations and emergencies all the time.
That's what they're trained to do - to act in emergencies and call for
medical assistance and that's what happened in this case."
Has there been any comments pro-actively supporting
the ACMI/midwife led
care in this unit by the RBH CEO, senior
management or the hospital Board???
If not, why
not?!?!?!
There should also be a comment rebuking such
behaviour by any AMA office bearer.
Helen and Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean & Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Center and Dr
Molloy
> without checking her dilation and caused a rupture that resulted in the
> woman dying...talk about taking things out of context!
>
> Great to hear such honest raw defense of midwives!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of B & G
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 5:24 PM
> To: Jenny Gamble
> Subject: [ozmidwifery] Birth Center and Dr Molloy
>
> Birth centre 'a scapegoat'
> 28may05
>
> THE Australian Medical Association has been accused by the College of
> Midwives of attacking Brisbane's only public birth centre to relieve the
> pressure on its members for defending the so-called Dr Death.
>
> The college's Queensland President Jenny Gamble said the Birth Centre at
> the Royal Brisbane Hospital was being used as a scapegoat and was at the
> centre of "a turf war" between private doctors and midwives.
> Ms Gamble said a few obstetricians had been "bullying and slagging" the
> birth centre since it opened 10 years ago as a provider of midwifery
> care to pregnant women in a home-like environment within the hospital.
>
> The AMA has criticised the centre after an emergency last weekend when a
> baby's shoulders got stuck during birth.
>
> AMA Queensland President Dr David Molloy said the incident was an
> example of what happened "when doctors were taken out of the medical
> system".
>
> However, Ms Gamble accused the AMA of exaggerating the incident to take
> the heat off itself for defending Indian-trained Dr Jayant Patel, who
> has been linked to 87 deaths at Bundaberg Hospital.
>
> "They are totally slinging mud. They're the ones who called the
> Bundaberg nurses lazy and defended Patel," she said.
>
> She said it served Dr Molloy's interest to exaggerate the incident,
> adding: "It's part of a longer term vendetta."
>
> "In the incident last weekend, the midwife facilitated a birth
> competently and was actually complimented on rounds to say she had done
> an excellent job. The mother and baby are fine. I believe they were
> discharged the next day."
>
> "Midwives deal with difficult situations and emergencies all the time.
> That's what they're trained to do - to act in emergencies and call for
> medical assistance and that's what happened in this case."
>
> Dr Molloy claimed the centre was in dire straits and has called for the
> public release of a report commissioned by Queensland Health into the
> birth centre.
>
> Ms Gamble suggested any recommendations for improvements would be
> directed at management, after a visiting medical officer called the
> Birth Centre a "killing field" and no action against the person was
> taken.
>
> "If we called private obstetrics a killing field or called them butchers
> all hell would let loose," she said.
>
> Ms Gamble said Dr Molloy was attacking the Birth Centre in order to
> stifle the implementation of recommendations from a separate Rebirthing
> report, an independent statewide report released earlier this month.
>
> She said the report supported midwifery as the primary carers for
> normal, health pregnant women with referral to medical practitioners as
> needed rather than being admitted under an obstetrician and care
> directed by an obstetrician.
>
> "This is turf protection. Dr Molloy is a private obstetrician and they
> don't want to see any erosion of their potential to earn income," Ms
> Gamble said.
>
>
>
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