Friday 10 October 2008

Meeting with the patient advocate\Modifying medical records

I had a meeting with the patient advocate of the Edward Hospital. She was very nice and understanding about the whole issue and she said that my letter has been forwarded to the Vice President of Risk management

I know maybe nothing will come out of it as she said that Hospital employ doctors as independent contractors and hence cannot do anything about it. She asked me to write to Department of professional regulation about it.

She spent almost an hour talking with me about everything and it was really nice. I also asked her about the process for getting my medical records modified. Though my records have lots of false information by Dr Bajaj, there is one that I particularly need taken care of

On Day 3, It was 36 hours after the CT Scan. Dr Bajaj had asked me not to breastfeed but Dr Quejada said it was ok to breastfeed. It is recommended to wait 24 hours after scan to start feeding but we had decided to wait 48 hours.

Before the baby came, I had gotten out of bed and lost a lot of blood. I was placed on strict bedrest catherised again. And I was given an antibiotic which was incompatible with the heparin drip. So I had to have a fresh IV in second arm. That IV failed 5 times because my blood was too thin. With IVs in both arm, when my baby was bought to me, I asked Bharat to hold him
Dr Bajaj has written in my records "Patient refuses to hold and nurse the baby". I hope Arnav doesnt think I am a bad mom. I was missing my baby away in the nursery all the time, yearning for him. How can I refuse to hold the baby

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