Nurse gives abortion pills to wrong patient

[Atomic_Piggy]

London A nurse was cautioned but allowed to continue practising after she gave an abortion drug to the wrong woman (Kevin Dowling writes). Ann Downer, 44, failed to verify her patient?s identity before administering Misoprostol, used at the final stage of a medical abortion.

Ms Downer, who was working at the Calthorpe Clinic in Edgbaston, Birmingham, realised her mistake and recalled the patient but the dose had already taken effect, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. The drug did not cause an abortion but the patient returned to the clinic suffering from stomach pains and bleeding and had to be taken to hospital.The patient then elected to go ahead with an abortion surgically a week later. The hearing was told that the clinic?s practice was to call out only the first names of patients, to protect confidentiality. Ms Downer however failed to then carry out the routine identity checks.

The woman was more than nine weeks pregnant and therefore not eligible for a chemical abortion which is administered only in the early stages of pregnancy and after an initial consultation.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article4361342.ece

Unlucky.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Indeed.

 

[Shift]

The pinnacle of today's healthcare service, terrible.

 

[Raziaar]

They once left a large piece of cloth in the belly of the wife of my cousin Evan after she gave birth and had a Caesarean section. She was very very dangerously ill ill until the problem was later diagnosed.

 

[Hellrider]

They once left a large piece of cloth in the belly of the wife of my cousin Evan after she gave birth and had a Caesarean section. She was very very dangerously ill ill until the problem was later diagnosed.

What's ill ill?

 

[Raziaar]

Doubly ill. Also known as a typo.

 

[Hellrider]

Doubly ill. Also known as a typo.

Cool.

 

[soulslicer]

That's ****ing horrible. Poor Women..

 

[Sulkdodds]

What the hell.

 

[CyberPitz]

That'll teach her for growing a parasite in her stomach.

 

[Remus]

Of course, the only solution is to destroy humanity.

Do you want to volunteer to be the first one to go Sea?

That'll teach her for growing a parasite in her stomach.

 

[Sedako]

Yeah, it sucks. I'm sure she'll get a nice settlement though. They always do.

 

[Saturos]

That nurse needs to have her employment contract "aborted", and her practitioner's license revoked.

 

[MJ12]

D: That's really horrible.

 

[highlander]

Wow thats ****ing insane.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Other than the stomach pains and bleeding, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Clearly she wanted an abortion, just not a checmical one because she was too far a long for that. It was a mistake on the nurse's part but no one is perfect.

 

[mastag]

That poor woman never got the abortion she wanted.

 

[soulslicer]

Oh, I thought she mistakenly gave the pills to someone who wanted to have a baby, must have read OP post wrongly..

Well, I guess it's not that ****ing horrible then.

 

[Krynn72]

That poor woman never got the abortion she wanted.

Yeah.





Oh wait she did. Lern 2 read.

 

[CptStern]

London A nurse was cautioned but allowed to continue practising after she gave an abortion drug to the wrong woman (Kevin Dowling writes). Ann Downer, 44, failed to verify her patient?s identity before administering Misoprostol, used at the final stage of a medical abortion.

how do they know god didnt want the nurse to give the wrong person the abortion pill ..perhaps he made a mistake and that baby was going to be the next hitler? God: the ultimate assassin

 

[JNightshade]

That's terrible

 

[Cormeh]

Man, this was a really depressing read. I'm rather moody now. ;(

 

[Asuka]

Man that sucks..

 

[Kula Meenur]

I would be soooo pissed if i was the father

 

[Dumb Dude]

Did you guys read past the thread title? The 9 moth pregnant patient WANTED an abortion to begin with. Thats why she was at an ABORTION clinic.

The only tragic thing here is that she suffered stomach pains and bleeding, where is the horrifying thing in that? And I'm sure the other patient ended up getting her meds too, so she more than likely still when through with her chemical abortion. Everyone got what they wanted in the end.

 

[Jintor]

Except for the gross miscarriage of procedure, of course. But no, that doesn't matter at all. No sir-ee.

 

[15357]

how do they know god didnt want the nurse to give the wrong person the abortion pill ..perhaps he made a mistake and that baby was going to be the next hitler? God: the ultimate assassin

But then God wouldn't have made Hitler in the first place would he? :rolling:

 

[Jintor]

Since God is all-powerful, he clearly could have stopped Hitler. Since God obviously exists, it follows that he allowed Hitler to live... to teach us a lesson! Or something!

I don't know, this logic train derailed after word two.

 

[Phobie]

I read about this, what a ****ing awful thing to happen. Also fail, majorly majorly fail.

 

[CptStern]

But then God wouldn't have made Hitler in the first place would he? :rolling:

but he learned his lesson from his first hitler mistake so now he's extra cautious and has a "kill-all-wanna-be-new-Hitlers" policy ..god may be omnipotent but he's not always paying attention ..that's how these things happen

 

[Sir Phoenixx]

how do they know god didnt want the nurse to give the wrong person the abortion pill ..perhaps he made a mistake and that baby was going to be the next hitler? God: the ultimate assassin

Except the ultimate assassin missed the first shot. :O

 

[CptStern]

Except the ultimate assassin missed the first shot. :O

but his intended target was the second not the first baby, therefore he was 100% successful

 

[Sir Phoenixx]

What second baby? The abortion pill didn't work, it only gave her stomach pains (missed first shot), but she got a surgical abortion later (second shot sucessful).

 

[CptStern]

it ultimately worked didnt it? and god didnt administer the second shot ..a doctor did. god just set up the circumstances that led to the second shot ...methinks he was trying hide evidence pointing back to him


the second baby is the the one that was eventually aborted ..never mind I was confused

 

[15357]

but he learned his lesson from his first hitler mistake so now he's extra cautious and has a "kill-all-wanna-be-new-Hitlers" policy ..god may be omnipotent but he's not always paying attention ..that's how these things happen

Heh, you sound just like our chaplain when we ask evil-men-existing-even-though-god-exists questions.

 

[CptStern]

so your chaplain things god has attention deficit disorder too? that would explain the saddams, the jungs and the bushes of this world