The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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Citation/Title 859 F.Supp.22, Randall V. U.S., (D.D.C. 1994) RANDALL v. UNITED STATES Civ. A. No. 91-2919-OG United States District Court District of Columbia Aug 2, 1994"Patient brought medical malpractice action against military hospital. The District Court, Gasch, Senior District Judge, held that : (1) patient had not established that there was a national standard of care, as to whether Caesarean section should be performed upon evidence that patient had genital warts attributable to human papilloma virus (HPV), precluding claim that physicians had been negligent in not performing Caesarean section so as to avoid infant's exposure to warts; (2) physicians had not obtained informed consent of patient to vaginal delivery, as they had not warned her of the dangers inherent in that delivery in presence of genital warts and given her option of selecting vaginal or Caesarean delivery; and (3) damages could include allowance for operations on infants required to remove respiratory warts every two months, until child reaches age 14."
.."In order to establish causality aspect of medical malpractice claim, it is not necessary for expert to testify he was personally certain that patient would not have sustained injury but for physician's negligence; it is sufficient for expert to state opinion, based on reasonable degree of medical certainty, that physician's negligence was more likely than anything else to cause, or be a cause, of victim's injuries."
.."Patient claiming that her infant daughter contracted juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis (JPL) due to passage down birth canal which contained undiagnosed genital warts did not establish there was national obstetrical standard of care requiring Caesarean section delivery under those circumstances, so as to avoid exposure to warts; some experts testified that Caesarean delivery would be offered only if there were HPV lesions obstructing birth canal, or when there existed risk of increased bleeding or infection..."
.."For purposes of determining whether patient had given informed consent to undergo a vaginal delivery, as opposed to a Caesarean section, physicians had duty to disclose to her, based upon pap smear and colposcopy examination conducted approximately six and three months prior to delivery, that she had genital warts arising from infection with HPV, and should have counseled her regarding risk to respiratory system of child from passing through birth canal versus risks attendant to Caesarean delivery."
.."was entitled to damages in amount of $500,000."
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