No, I'm not an OBGYN (nor would I want to be), I'm an Ophthalmologist.
Great! You're an EYE doctor. You have very little "real" medical experience, save for med school and MAYBE some experience as a PGY-1 intern somewhere.
So, for you to go on the record and say:
And for the record, these aren't medical emergencies at all. These are cash pay clinics that can't handle emergencies anyway.
seems a bit out of your area of expertise, right doc?
But, what REALLY irritated me, one medical professional to another, was this comment:
When the life of an pregnant woman in the late second/third trimester is in danger (e.g. in eclampsia), you deliver the baby, you don't kill it. The reason these abortionists are so rare and so outcast is because they kill babies that are viable outside the womb.
You REALLY let your inexperience in MEDICINE shine here. There are many reasons why the life of a pregnant woman is in danger, not just preeclampsia. Many times the woman's life is in danger because she is carrying a baby with devastating fetal anomalies. She could run into problems with peripartum cardiomyopathy, DVT's, Anemia, Gestational Diabetes...The list goes on and on.
Your comment:
My first patient as a 3rd year med student was a baby born at 26 weeks gestational age in a class iii NICU
is, again, VERY misleading. As a 3rd year "short jacket", you either stood in the corner of the delivery room or in the corner of the NICU. If you were lucky, you got to talk with the family for a bit. YOU didn't intervene, nor did you perform any type of procedures on the patient or the infant.
It's important that people understand that, as an EYE doctor, your practice is limited to the eyes. That's it. The majority of your medical experience occurred in med school, maybe PGY-1. So, for you to come on IMDB and claim all these doctors do things like
crush her skull and vacuum out her brain like these monsters do, we saved her. What they do is murder.
is just an extremist opinion, not a MEDICAL ONE.
I AM A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. I guarantee I know more about medicine and all the things that go with it, than you do. I actually watched the doc
After Tiller. I was taken aback, at first. But the majority of the women who were there to have a late term abortion were there because their child had been diagnosed, in utero, with catastrophic syndromes or other anomalies. One lady was REFERRED there after multiple physicians and specialists agreed that having a late term abortion was more HUMANE than giving birth. Another woman's child had ACC, or Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Her child would have non-stop seizures, starting immediately after giving birth. Go get out your OB/GYN rotation text and revisit those anomalies.
So, for and EYE DOCTOR, to claim that he knows SO MUCH about fetal health is ridiculous. I am the one who takes care of these kids AFTER they are born. Some have a decent quality of life, but most DO NOT. THEY SUFFER. They go through countless medical and surgical procedures, trachs, mechanical vent support, massive doses of seizure meds (some of which have such horrible side effects, we have to [legally] get them from other countries because they are not approved for use in the US). Of the parents that DO stick around and spend the first several years of their child's life living at one of the FEW hospitals equipped to take care of such kids, they usually end up with depression, anxiety, and a whole host of other ailments related to being a mother/father of such medically and neurologically devastated children. Most of these marriages end, so then it's up to the mom to deal with it all, alone. And those are the few that actually stick it out. Because the MAJORITY stick around at the beginning, then they start going home at night. Then the daily visits turn in to once a week, twice a month, and then maybe they visit on Christmas. All the while, people like myself, care for their child IN THE HOSPITAL (not a nursing home, there aren't any for kids like this).
So, I ask you, does this at all sound like quality of life? It isn't. It's suffering, sadness, misery, and hurt all-in-one. Sure, there are glimpses of a smile, but it's really just myoclonic jerking of the face. So, do everyone a favor and get off your high horse Mr. Right to Life, because what I've illustrated here, ISN'T LIFE! Just because someone has a pulse and is breathing does NOT mean they are also "alive" at any stretch.
Also, the MAJORITY of these anomalies ARE NOT DIAGNOSED BEFORE EIGHT WEEKS, or what ever ridiculous comment you made. THE MAJORITY ARE NOT DIAGNOSED UNTIL WELL INTO THE SECOND OR EVEN THRID TRIMESTER. Your claim that all these things can be diagnosed early is just horse manure.
So rather than coming onto IMDB and trying to shove your extremist views down people's throats, and attempting to bolster your lies by telling people that you're a doctor, you should just stick to prescribing glasses and contacts, DOCTOR. You NEVER KNOW when someone, who has a WHOLE lot more experience in the REAL WORLD of medicine will come along and knock you off your soap box.
And, BTW, no I do not condone late term abortions unless the woman has been raped (as one woman had been) or if the mother or fetus are faced with life threatening illnesses or syndromes. However, I WILL ALWAYS support a woman's right to choose because Lord knows I would NEVER want to take care of a kid that somehow survived a botched illegal abortion...
"What does a man do Walter? A man provides for his family."
-Gustavo Fring
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