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Can someone who is in favor of requiring that doctors have admitting privileges at a local hospital in order to perform an abortion at a clinic explain the medical benefit to the mother?
In other words, what benefit is there for such a requirement aside from reducing the number of doctors who are able to perform abortions?
If there are medical benefits to the mother, could these benefits still be had if the clinic simply had to be physically located within X miles of a hospital?
Emergency medical departments are, by and large, wonders of modern medical science. Acute patients can be rapidly diagnosed, stabilized, and admitted to the appropriate department for more specialized care. If they're good enough for victims of gunshot wounds and car accidents, why not patients of abortion clinics?
Has there been a pandemic of mothers bleeding to death that the press has been hiding from the American public?
Can someone who is in favor of requiring that doctors have admitting privileges at a local hospital in order to perform an abortion at a clinic explain the medical benefit to the mother?
In other words, what benefit is there for such a requirement aside from reducing the number of doctors who are able to perform abortions?
If there are medical benefits to the mother, could these benefits still be had if the clinic simply had to be physically located within X miles of a hospital?
Emergency medical departments are, by and large, wonders of modern medical science. Acute patients can be rapidly diagnosed, stabilized, and admitted to the appropriate department for more specialized care. If they're good enough for victims of gunshot wounds and car accidents, why not patients of abortion clinics?
Has there been a pandemic of mothers bleeding to death that the press has been hiding from the American public?
Admitting privileges - allow a doctor to admit a patient to the hospital
Courtesy privileges - allow a doctor to occasionally admit or to visit and treat patients in the hospital
Surgical privileges - to perform surgery in the hospital's operating room or outpatient surgery area
As good as they are, emergency personnel are not psychic. They typically don't know the patient and one of the first things they try to access are the patient's medical records and the patient's doctor. If the patient's doctor has admitting privileges that's a huge bonus - especially if that doctor was just under the hood on the same patient.
As for the pandemic, probably not but we have no way to know. Coroners won't put botched abortion as a cause of death.
I think it's probably about the extra scrutiny doctors undergo when they apply for admitting privileges in a hospital. Categories of admission procedures:
Patients seeking any treatment from any doctor are always as much at the mercy of that doctor as they allow themselves to be. That's the risk you run when you entrust a professional with what you yourself do not understand. All the certifications in the world aren't going to protect you from a careless idiot, and they aren't going to prevent human error.
At any rate, I'm wandering off-point. What kind of extra scrutiny are you talking about?
I have no idea. Certifications most certainly do protect patients from idiots. A guy who graduated from medical school thirty years ago is so far behind the curve as to be incompetent.
I have no idea. Certifications most certainly do protect patients from idiots. A guy who graduated from medical school thirty years ago is so far behind the curve as to be incompetent.
Actually, I've found some of the old private practice doctors are the sharpest of all because they are diverse in knowledge. They also tend to not just let drug companies tell them what to do for which everything is solved with a pill.
Oh, I'm sure that most doctors (even aged, non-board certified) are pretty competent to perform abortions. It's just one more "reason."
My personal experience through my mom's healthcare is that they are too casual about some of the testing -- if her aged doctor was any example. She was taking Cumadin, required to be tested once a week and had to carry her own blood sample to the lab. Ha! Then one night, he called at 10:30 PM an said, "Hurry to Walgreen's and get some Vitamin K. Your clotting factor is way too low." Really? :rofl
She doesn't see him anymore. I hope he's retired. (But I get your point.)
Lord forbid we require doctors to be trained, accountable, responsible and well thought enough in the medical community to have priviledges at a local hospital.
I dont think I would want a doctor digging around my insides that was not good enough or not interested enough to have a way to get me into a hospital asap if needed.What additional benefit is there to requiring admitting priviledges aside from reducing the number of doctors who are able to perform abortions?
If there are medical benefits to the mother, could these benefits still be had if the clinic simply had to be physically located within X miles of a hospital?
I dont think I would want a doctor digging around my insides that was not good enough or not interested enough to have a way to get me into a hospital asap if needed.
But that is me.
Emergency medical departments are, by and large, wonders of modern medical science. Acute patients can be rapidly diagnosed, stabilized, and admitted to the appropriate department for more specialized care. If they're good enough for victims of gunshot wounds and car accidents, why not patients of abortion clinics?
Oh, heck I dont know. What happens if there is a medical emergency, bleed, stroke, siezure or one of a million things that can happen.As I've already stated,
So, again, where's the medical benefit to the mother?
Oh, heck I dont know. What happens if there is a medical emergency, bleed, stroke, siezure or one of a million things that can happen.
We already know the baby is toast, but lets try to give the mother some help if needed.
Or not, if its all good for the baby do die, so can she.
Lord forbid we require doctors to be trained, accountable, responsible and well thought enough in the medical community to have priviledges at a local hospital.
Can someone who is in favor of requiring that doctors have admitting privileges at a local hospital in order to perform an abortion at a clinic explain the medical benefit to the mother?
In other words, what benefit is there for such a requirement aside from reducing the number of doctors who are able to perform abortions?
If there are medical benefits to the mother, could these benefits still be had if the clinic simply had to be physically located within X miles of a hospital?
Emergency medical departments are, by and large, wonders of modern medical science. Acute patients can be rapidly diagnosed, stabilized, and admitted to the appropriate department for more specialized care. If they're good enough for victims of gunshot wounds and car accidents, why not patients of abortion clinics?
Has there been a pandemic of mothers bleeding to death that the press has been hiding from the American public?
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