• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Jesus Christ, that’s horrible. Where are the charges against the medical personnel who fucked up and caused this tragedy?

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      It’s plausible to me that the baby’s death isn’t anybody’s fault. Assume everyone’s telling the truth and there’s a sequence of events where it’s just an accident.

      • The mother didn’t know she was pregnant
      • The doctors didn’t check for pregnancy immediately
      • The doctors gave morphine
      • Morphine causes confusion
      • The mother gives birth in a confused state
      • The mother lost a lot of blood during the birth
      • Blood loss causes additional impairment
      • The baby takes a breath (the autopsy found air in the lungs)
      • The baby stops breathing due to morphine intoxication (the autopsy found morphine in the baby)
      • The mother, with judgment significantly impaired by morphine and blood loss, puts the dead baby in the trash

      Maybe that’s how it happened. Maybe it isn’t. The incoherent statement I saw in the video doesn’t convince me otherwise.A prosecution seems inappropriate here unless there’s some better evidence than what I’m seeing in news stories.

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        9 days ago

        Yeah, “something bad happened” doesn’t always mean “and therefore someone must be to blame.” Sometimes life just sucks.

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        Maybe it is. Sometimes the only fair way to judge something for a at face value, rather than your expectations

        But that 48 minutes …….

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          But that 48 minutes …….

          That was my first thought too, but pregnancy isn’t typically treated as a critical test result, so likely was not seen within the first few minutes the result was available.