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    VerklemptomaniacIbn Safir
    5/04/19 7:05pm

    Put aside, for a moment, the sheer incompetence it takes to drop a newborn baby. Put aside (as Nunna Yorz aptly described) the fact that minorities get treated worse in health care settings, which gives some context to the response they got.

    You’re the hospital. You dropped a goddamn newborn. On its head. This is bad. Very bad. Even more bad if it gets out. You should be on your goddamn hands and knees to these parents, gnashing your teeth, rending your garments, throwing a generous settlement at them to please not go to the media with their video of your staffer dropping a fucking newborn. That settlement should’ve been filed so fast, the windows at the court house would’ve been blown out by the sonic boom. What are they thinking?!

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      StrangerSnacksVerklemptomaniac
      5/04/19 9:05pm

      Probably decided they didn’t have enough money to hire a lawyer. Which is incredibly stupid because video.

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      windchillVerklemptomaniac
      5/04/19 9:23pm

      You really, really underestimate the ability of organized medicine to pretend that mistakes never happen.

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    Nunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)Ibn Safir
    5/04/19 6:53pm

    I hope they use. Anybody that has worked in healthcare for any amount of time will tell you that it’s common for minorities to be treated with a kind of disdain or disregard. And if that’s not enough there are any number of studies that highlight all of the disparities in the level of care we get. It doesn’t cost anything to treat people like fellow humans. In fact for anyone who chooses to be a healthcare worker that much basic compassion should come with the job, but if they’re gonna treat people like that then yeah, sue them and shame them until they either go broke or do better, which again doesn't cost a damn penny.

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      U82muchNunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)
      5/04/19 7:32pm

      The doctors response is just disgusting. You can’t say sorry? These parents seem like perfectly reasonable people, they have every right to be upset. Thank god they were filming this, otherwise they’d be totally discredited. Jesus Christ, if you’re an obstetrician who drops a baby on its head and you feel no remorse- FIND ANOTHER JOB,

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      JRWU82much
      5/04/19 11:57pm

      Saying “I’m sorry” is taking responsibility. In the age when lawyers and insurers run healthcare, not doctors, an apology is impossible.

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    MarcelineIbn Safir
    5/05/19 9:44am

    “It made me so mad I had to, like, stop recording.”

    Except you didn’t.

    I’m sorry but as I watch that video all I see is a slippery newborn baby falling out of the hands of someone trying to care for it. This wasn’t done on purpose. It was the very definition of an accident.

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      Optimistic PrimeMarceline
      5/05/19 7:04pm

      Sure, it was an accident. But first of all, that’s an accident that can cause a lot of damage, so accident or nah, they’re still liable. Second of all, they acted super nonchalant and refused to apologize when asked.

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      Old white guyMarceline
      5/06/19 10:58am

      Yeah, I mean, how were they supposed to know the baby would be slippery.  Not to mention that it was bad to drop one on its head.  I mean, they’re just doctors!

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    SeanIbn Safir
    5/04/19 7:10pm

    At first I thought this would be a litigious couple that videoed the doctor lightly dropping the baby by accident, but wow I was wrong -

    It looks like they were casually pouring out a box of cereal, or unraveling a comforter onto a bed, with seemingly no sudden knee-jerk response reaction to show this was accidental, or that they cared.

    Sue the eff out of them. This is clear negligence.

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    RobbIbn Safir
    5/04/19 8:37pm

    Literally waited to see the urgency to recover mid drop...this wont make it to court. The hospital insurance company will pay out, shit on the staff, and promise changes will be made

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    iculookinIbn Safir
    5/05/19 7:23am

    I would be the new owner of that medical center or I would be in prison if that were my child. 

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      Mercenary Cheficulookin
      5/05/19 4:58pm

      Seconded.

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    SessoMatto (Yes, I'm really fun at parties.)Ibn Safir
    5/04/19 9:52pm

    WHO cannot manage to not drop a BABY!

    FFS.

    I’m not just embarrassed to be white. I’m embarrassed to be human.

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    MojoHannaIbn Safir
    5/04/19 7:28pm

    In the past few years, I spent an enormous amount of time at ‘the hospital’ with close family members and observed appalling levels of incompetence and lackadaisical, even sloppy care, particularly of non-white patients. Recently, I experienced an emergency situation. Afterwards, I told my fam, take me to the witch doctor if necessary but don’t take me to “them” again. I was highly pissed when a doc called me Shaniqua - there are no letters in my 2 syllable name even close to making a 3 syllable Shaniqua sound. I could crash the web with “healthcare” stories!

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      FeministOnFireMojoHanna
      5/04/19 10:19pm

      Record scratch! Did you stop all movement, arch an eyebrow and demand and apology and tell him he’lll refer to you as Miss/Ms. MojoHanna whenever he even THINKS of you?!?! Did you bust his ass for being a stereotype-employing racist right then and there in front of everyone LOUDLY?!? Then, did you or your family demand the name of every person in the area and write down the date and time and report him then or demand a meeting later?

      Please, before I am unable to sleep tonight, tell me what variation on any of these you employed???!!!

      Oooooowwwwweeeee, I wish a muhfukka WOULD slip up (which was not a slipup but the sly shit racists do because racism is no fun unless you can SAY it right in front of the person and get away with it)!

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      MojoHannaFeministOnFire
      5/05/19 10:07am

      It got handled, I received a lame apology and Sister Doctor did the professional equivalent of slapping the fuck out of him in front of everybody. I loved the part where she gutted him about his blaccent, something my son had already asked to stop because it was so disrespectful. They just flat don’t give a damn!

      Oh and fuck all of you excuse making racist mofos up in here. One cannot receive compassion from soulless savages who have none. My lived experience supersedes and smugly mocks your outlandish fuckery, you thirsty ass attention hoes!

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    FeministOnFireIbn Safir
    5/04/19 10:08pm

    I’m going to be ME, AGAIN!

    Why, in the hell, are Black people so sheepish in the face of blantant mistreatment?!“Hey, hey muhfukka! Don’t touch my baby anymore! Get another doctor in here STAT! Nobody else MOVE until every administrator gets down here right now!!”

    They would have been transferring me and my babies within the hour. The fact that the parents were so timid is why and how the hospital was able to take their baby and subject her to tests WITHOUT their knowledge and consent! Who knows what else they did to those babies?!?!

    And once again, what, do Black people think they’re taking the higher moral ground by not expressing righteous anger and by asking for only an apology?!?! If an apology is not a knee-jerk response to an action like this, the perpetrator doesn’t care they did it, is not afraid of the consequences or possible repercussions AND has been trained never to apologize as it admits fault/culpability. In any case, what does a request for apology gain you?! Stop it, people!!!

    People are only sorry and change themselves when it costs them something: an ass-whooping/imminent death, MONEY or Jail!

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      Optimistic PrimeFeministOnFire
      5/05/19 5:56pm

      Are you blaming the parents of a dropped newborn for the aftermath?

      It’s really easy to say what you would do in a situation like this on the Internet, but research shows that people are actually really bad at predicting how they would react in stressful situations. Sometimes in the moment, you’re so shocked and upset that you freeze. People are also very susceptible to the direction of authority, especially if they thought their newborn was harmed. I could see a situation in which they thought that the newborn needed immediate care to remedy being dropped on its head a few second ago.

      Black people are also damned if they do and damned if they don’t. My sister had the state try to take away her newborn baby because she made a non-life-threatening medical decision that the hospital didn’t like. When she expressed her anger to the social workers about the way that the state was treating her - like she was some sort of criminal - they used her anger against her in court to try to prove that she was a volatile, unfit mother who might abuse her child. It took her several months to get him back and to get out from under DFCS supervision.

      So yeah, getting angry and yelling things as a black parent in the hospital doesn’t always solve problems and can, in fact, make things worse.

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      FeministOnFireOptimistic Prime
      5/06/19 1:09am

      Said every slave who ever talked others into bowing their heads, speaking in hushed tones (or not speaking at all), biding their time and waiting on God. Thereby making every 'example' they made out of us PRICELESS in it's deterrent value. 

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    classynogin@gmail.comIbn Safir
    5/05/19 7:38am

    Nope won't watch. I'll take y'all word.

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