Medical Mishaps
VOLUME 25 ISSUE 1
October is a month meant to be scary—horror movies on the screens and costumes lining the street. Maybe the changing of seasons itself is what’s scary to some people.
But what about the scary things we don’t realize are happing? The real things? What happens in the places we’re meant to be safest: in hospitals, amongst the people sworn by oath to protect, heal, and tell the truth?
“Before a pregnant woman enters a hospital, a flurry of emotions overwhelms her: excitement to meet her child, doubts of whether she will be an adequate mother, fear of delivery going smoothly… No matter what she, or any patient, is going through, we should not doubt that she will receive the best possible care from the hospital.”
— from article— Lucy Letby: Mad Midwife by Claudia Davis
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Lucy Letby: Mad Midwife
Before a pregnant woman enters a hospital, a flurry of emotions overwhelms her: excitement to meet her child, doubts of whether she will be an adequate mother, fear of delivery going smoothly… No matter what she, or any patient, is going through, we should not doubt that she will receive the best possible care from the hospital.
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