It is good to hear that you were able to receive some personal
satisfaction from the medication process at RHW.
If every women (or at least, a whole lot more) wrote in with similar
stores to yours, then they will not be able to keep saying the "It
has never happened before" - there will be a file building up. It is
easy to fob off one person with these kinds of excises, but then the
numbers mount up, it is harder to ignore.
Ask anyone that you know who suffered as you did to also write in,
with cc copies to several different departments - the Head of
Midwifery, Director of Nursing/Midwifery, Chairman of the Board,
etc. It is also hard for them to "file" a letter or an issue of they
know others have also received copies. Letter writing campaigns can
have an impact...
Best wishes,
Andrea
At 06:23 PM 18/11/2005, you wrote:
Speaking as a consumer who has used the HSC, it was a useful process for my
healing but it didn't achieve a single concrete gain for women at RWH at
all. The hospy reps apologised constantly, said things like "Oh that's NEVER
happened before!" and "Yes, but Home Birthing Mothers like a lot more
explanation than Hospital Birthing Mothers do and we're too understaffed to
talk anyway!" or my personal favourite, "But it happens to everyone!" as an
excuse for why no one asked my permission for a heap of stuff done to my
body. All I got was a letter summing up (poorly and showing an obviously
naive belief that hospitals listen to consumers!) from the mediator who was
a lovely woman. The meeting meant squat. I hope they have the capacity to do
more when professionals complain because absolutely nothing came from my
massive, and well evidenced complaint.
J
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