Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
www.themarshallproject.org
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
  • frezik@midwest.social
    32·
    7 days ago

    DS9 “Past Tense” is a prescient episode in a lot of ways, but there’s one line that I think doesn’t get enough attention: it’s not that people don’t care, but that all the problems they face seem too big to handle.

    Having a baby swiped away based on a drug test for drugs the hospital gave you is horrible. Yet, it seems to rate rather low compared to a huge list of other problems we face, and I really don’t know how to deal with that.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    27·
    7 days ago

    That’s incredible. Another headline I never would have imagined on my own.

    Way to go, hospital staff. You’re doing great. /s

  • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
    26·
    7 days ago

    Here we go again more stories about hospitals and CPS services using faulty and/or cheap means of testing to “comply” with regulations at the expense of patient. Why am I not at all surprised. I used to do this testing and when the process is done correctly it works. Here’s how it’s supposed to be done. First off you get a urine from Mom on admissions BEFORE giving any medication. Then you get the meconium and urine from baby after birth. You screen all three and confirm any positive screen with a more stringent confirmation test. Then you compare the three results to get a full picture of any drug usage that may be going on. Mom’s urine will tell you if she’s using within the last 3-5 days depending on the drug with the exception of THC which can stick around longer. Meconium gives you a window of drug use that might have occurred from the second trimester and on. It’s not great to test it on its own because it’s suspectable to faulty specimen collection. (I can’t tell you how many times I got a cup of baby shit instead of real meconium. Real meconium looks like plastic, has the consistency of a mallomar, and usually has a mucus plug attached.)Then you test the baby’s first urine output to determine if they have active drug in their system now. Use all three results together to interpret the big picture. At NO point do you ever give providers the screen results before confirmation. Hospitals and legal entities should be sued into oblivion for prosecuting innocent people over bad procedure and screening results. This shit irritates me to no end.

    • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
      13·
      7 days ago

      We can also blame the DEA for putting massive amounts of pressure on hospitals and drs for NOT doing these tests, even if circumstances didn’t allow, or wasnt a priority(emergency c sections for example)

      So the hospital breaks the protocol you laid out for us otherwise the DEA can come in and audit the hospital and if they don’t like what they find, like missing drug tests, they can take doctors liscences to practice and drag that hospital through the dirt. It’s fucked up how much power they have and how detrimental they’ve become to healthcare.

      My doctor is forced to drug test me because of a medication I take. The last time she did it she apologized and said the DEA was auditing them this month and she had no choice. Those drug tests are like $500 if you don’t have insurance, and a lot of private insurances won’t cover it. If they won’t I have to sign a paper saying I’ll pay for it. If I don’t do this I don’t get life giving medications for a neurological disorder I was born with.

      DEA mandated drug tests are unethical and provide very little benefit… if any at all. It just makes every patient feel like a criminal. Let doctors use their best judgment. It’s better than the alternative… which is this.

      • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
        4·
        7 days ago

        Oh I absolutely agree. Gabapentin being one of those “scheduled” and monitored drug about broke me in the lab. Like no one is purposely getting high off of that shit. The Sacklers ruined pain management for everyone and I hope they all burn in hell.

  • recentSloth43@lemmy.world
    26·
    7 days ago

    “I’ve decided having black eye is illegal. Now hold still as i punch you in the eye” -the people making up those same laws probably

  • IAmLamp@fedia.io
    67·
    7 days ago

    Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl’s Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr… “Fuck You, I’m Eating.”

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      184·
      7 days ago

      1. I’m not going to get thrown in prison for acting “gay” (for the time being).

      2. I can tell the president to his face to kiss my ass without repercussions.

      3. I’m not going to get drafted against my will for a special military operation and thrown into a combat zone surrounded by murderous rape-y convicts.

      4. I’m allowed to consume foreign media and use foreign Internet services.

      It sucks, but it doesn’t suck that hard yet. Be real.

      • Nanook@lemm.eeEnglish
        423·
        7 days ago
        1. Murdered
        2. Go try
        3. Yes that never happened in the US cough cough
        4. What sound does a clock make?
        • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
          143·
          7 days ago
          1. I’m still alive
          2. If I could get close enough to him, I would
          3. That was way before my time, and we have more than enough volunteers to cover anything thrown at the country. In fact, I think the military is way too bloated for what it does.
          4. Bans on government devices and distribution of the app on corporate app stores does not legally stop me from accessing it via other means, such as sideloading.
              • Nanook@lemm.eeEnglish
                111·
                7 days ago

                Nope, you’re the one making assumptions. I already gave arguments, their replies were enough for me, I didn’t feel like repeating myself.

                • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  91·
                  7 days ago

                  I already gave arguments

                  And they got destroyed, then you failed to continue the discussion

                  Isn’t it like midnight in Russia rn? Go the fuck to bed, Ivan

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      17·
      7 days ago

      Maybe that’s the long term plan. Make this country so undesirable that nobody wants to come here anymore. Boom, immigrant “problem” solved.

      Then the brain drain comes…

  • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    688·
    7 days ago

    Honestly, children should probably be raised by the state anyways. You just don’t know who’s anti-science or indoctrinated with misinformation anymore these days.