This Qld debacle has been report on the ABC (radio) here in Perth
Denise Hynd
"Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the
sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by
anyone, our bodies will be handled."
— Linda Hes
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From: "Dean & Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:04 PM
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Birth Center and Dr Molloy
What about the labour ward -doctor led care- that augmented a vbac
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!
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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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