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Aug 23, 2016, 6:23pm Amy Littlefield
It felt heartbreaking, said Melanie Jones. It felt like they were telling me that I had done something wrong, that I had made a mistake and therefore they were not going to help me; that they stigmatized me, saying that I was doing something wrong, when Im not doing anything wrong. Im doing something thats well within my legal rights.
Melanie Jones arrived for her doctors appointment bleeding and in pain. Jones, 28, who lives in the Chicago area, had slipped in her bathroom, and suspected the fall had dislodged her copper intrauterine device (IUD).
Her doctor confirmed the IUD was dislodged and had to be removed. But the doctor said she would be unable to remove the IUD, citing Catholic restrictions followed by Mercy Hospital and Medical Center and providers within its system.
I think my first feeling was shock, Jones told Rewire in an interview. I thought that eventually they were going to recognize that my health was the top priority.
The rest at https://rewire.news/article/2016/08/23/complaint-citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-dislodged-iud/
We need to get superstition out of the medical field.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Maybe you should not be practicing medicine.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)miscarriage storiyalso not letting you go when terminal (life cult IMO ) and also not enough pain meds but crazy power of prayer . So many people I know are like me because we all know of multiple stories . We tell our loved ones anything happens make sure the responders do not send me to a catholic hospital !!
Edit to add all the stories I am talking about were family and friends
not online or area gossip but this online story in the OP I do not doubt a word
Calculating
(2,955 posts)It really has no place in the practice. If you won't do lifesaving procedures because you have a religious objection, then you have no business being a doctor.
rug
(82,333 posts)Rhodes said Mercy was reviewing its education process on Catholic directives for physicians and residents.
That act [of removing an IUD] in itself does not violate the directives, Marty Folan, Mercys director of mission integration, told Rewire.
The rules are against inserting an IUD, not removing one.
sunnystarr
(2,638 posts)thinking I must have missed something. If they have no problem removing why wasn't it done? Really bad reporting or just using a bad example for an existing problem... which is bad reporting.
LAGC
(5,330 posts)What gives these religious authorities the right to decide her healthcare needs for her?
If you're going to be in the business of serving the public, there should be no strings attached.
These Catholic hospitals need to either provide full access healthcare to everyone, without discrimination or refusal to provide certain services, or cede control of those hospitals to secular authorities who can provide the full range of care that people need, if they are unwilling to.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)Actually, if it's causing bleeding, it needs to be removed. It might be able to be reinserted later but I'm pretty sure if it's caused an injury, the injury needs to be resolved first. Later she can go somewhere else to have it reinserted.
rug
(82,333 posts)A lot of things go wrong when any ideology enters health care.
progressoid
(49,978 posts)But maybe the "doctor" was worried the sexy funtime sins would transfer to her if she did this.
crosinski
(411 posts)They needed to take it out, not reinsert it!
Where they afraid there might be a tiny embryo attached?
Idiots.
They should be required to have huge signs in highly visible areas that say they can't give pregnant women the medical treatment they might need to save their lives, not just tell them so.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)15th century morons.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)before on their bizarre practices that can lead to pain infection or worse and also their end of life practices
The reverence of "life" taken to the extreme
I don't think I have enough fingers to count all the catholic hospitals in the metropolis
Mercy is a large hospital on the city lakefront right out side of the downtown area .
You could walk there from the Bears stadium
these hospitals are not an obscurity around here
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Diderot
keithbvadu2
(36,769 posts)Their idea of right and wrong is very selective.
matt819
(10,749 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Isn't this exactly what Jesus would do???
I hope these assholes skip Purgatory and go straight to Hell. And stay there.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I thought having it was what went against Catholic dogma.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What if her life was in jeopardy? Would they just let her bleed to death? God, I hate these religious mofos!
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,666 posts)Catholic hospitals. 1 in 6 beds are in catholic hospitals right now.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Steps in and clamps down on ideologies that interfere with patient care.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Treatment as simple as this violates a silly philosophical rule of the employer. The hospital wants to re-educate their staff about their nonsensical rules.