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I contacted the journalist today to ask about what hospital department the women were admitted to.
I’m a teacher, so I understand that students need to be trained, so I was hoping it was a situation of the women being in Obstetrics and Gynecology, in for some sort of vaginal surgery, and the med students assisted without the women knowing - still not good, but at least they’re doing the same thing as the Dr was doing to the patient.
The women were admitted to the Obstetrics & Gynecology Department.
The women were having Caesarean sections.
This feels worse to me in so many ways.
- In order to be booked in for a General Anesthetic C-Section, there is often cause for concern with the health of the mother and baby. People can chose to give birth via c-section with no pregnancy issues, but they will likely just use an epidural. GA is often used during emergency C-Sections also. See page 16 of the NZ Maternity Clinical Indicators for this info.
- These are women less likely to notice vaginal bleeding and pain as being unexpected or strange, given they’re undergoing the birthing process. A woman waking up from stomach surgery with a bleeding and sore vagina - immediate red flag. A woman waking from a C-Section with the same issue is going to be sore throughout after 9 months of pregnancy and the C-Section etc.
Point 2 is the one in particular that I’m finding incredibly chilling. To me it looks like a deliberate attempt to disguise or hide what they’re doing.
Anyway…yay.