Dr. Erik Fleischman and Involuntary Sterilization

Via Femonomics, we find a really disturbing post from Dr. Erik Fleischman, an American doctor practicing in Tanzania who brags about participating in an involuntary sterilization, calling the doctor who performed the procedure a “hero.” After a pregnant patient’s heart stops beating on the operating table during a C-section (because they screwed up the epidural and then didn’t monitor her vital signs), Dr. Erik performs rib-cracking CPR, and his partner doctor ties the patient’s tubes:


They don’t inform her of the fact that she almost died in surgery, that she might have a serious chest injury, and that they sterilized her. There’s not much else to say other than “holy shit” — until in the comments, Dr. Erik refers to the doctor who involuntarily sterilized his patient as a “hero.”

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/12/04/dr-erik-fleischman-and-involuntary-sterilization/