Title: FW: [MCMgtCte] Molloy delivers an apology - Courier Mail
Dear List
This is from MC’s token bloke, the wonderful Bruce Teakle in QLD, re Molloy and the ‘killing fields’ statement.
JC
Subject: [MCMgtCte] Molloy delivers an apology - Courier Mail
Dear Team,
Please see article below from today's Courier Mail.
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Please keep up with phone calls to MPs, AMA etc.
Thankyou cards to David Molloy, for breaking the medical grip on the health debate, can be sent to .........
Best wishes from Bruce.
Bruce Teakle
Maternity Coalition
Qld Branch President
Lindsay Rd, Mt Glorious 4520
07 3289 0231
0438 736 740
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Molloy delivers an apology
Jeff Sommerfeld, health reporter
31may05
MIDWIVES yesterday received an unreserved apology from Queensland Australian
Medical Association president David Molloy for comments which labelled a
hospital birthing centre "the killing fields".
Dr Molloy conceded the _expression_ was "over the top" and he committed the AMA
to not using it again.
The comments were in response to a question last Friday, when Dr Molloy said
the term had been used to describe the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Birthing Centre after several alleged near-death incidents at the centre.
Concerns about the standard of care at the birthing centre were raised,
including allegations two doctors were prevented from assisting a woman who was
having a difficult birth.
However, Queensland's chief health officer Gerry FitzGerald said Queensland
Health had not received any complaints about the incident.
Dr Molloy's comments prompted an angry response from midwives, who said it was
part of an ongoing campaign to discredit the centre.
Australian College of Midwives (Qld) spokeswoman Jenny Gamble said the RBWH's
birthing centre had been under siege by doctors since its inception.
"It's been been fighting for its life with some vociferous doctors that have
been bad-mouthing it. Yet its outcomes are well comparable with world
standards," she said.
"Unfortunately Molloy is not interested in improving the public health care
system. If he was, his approach would follow recommendations of the recent
review of birthing services."
Friends of the Birth Centre spokeswoman Melissa Fox said she could not have
received better care when she gave birth to her daughter Lily last October,
despite birthing complications. She said that she went into the birthing centre
and attempted to give birth under the watchful eye of a midwife.
But, when complications arose, the midwife called in an obstetrician and she
was transferred into an adjacent hospital birth suite.
Ms Fox said the birthing centre is about choice.
"Some women just want to have home births and some women want the right to have
a scheduled caesarean," she said.
"Women should have the type of birth they feel most safe with.
"For a lot of people going in and seeing the double bed in the birthing centre
is what makes women want to go there."
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