Mary Jane is woken up by a nurse to take her BP and she asks,
“tell me how is my baby? Seriously you know you can tell me? How are his lungs?”
Ofcourse by this time I am deep in my water works, tears all over trying to control myself (Kecho, it’s a movie!). The nurse looks at her, ” your baby boy is fine, we have put him on oxygen his lungs need a little assistance but he is fine.” At this point, I am wondering why don’t doctors give out information. Is there some code of don’t tell the patient or they will die? Don’t these people know that there’s nothing like oversharing when it comes to our babies?? Next scene her folks come in, she tells her dad “why can’t they let me see my baby? Why?” The dad excused himself and goes to find out what’s up. He returned with a doctor who goes on to tell them, ” the baby is off the oxygen and they are monitoring him for a few weeks” Next Scene, she’s taken to the NICU…. I snapped out of it, that’s a movie. In real life, it’s a whole different story.
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Why do medical practitioners keep information? Why is it on a need to know basis when you are dealing with people’s health? Is there a class for how to keep your patients updated as and when they receive treatment and after care?
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To those who have been touched by pregnancy and infant loss, what questions would you want to ask the doctors(gynaecologists/pediatricians/fertility specialist) that you were not given a chance to ask?(I remember My Dora asking me, “where is the pediatrician?why is Emma the one who came to update us? He isn’t a pediatrician. I still need closure on this area. I never got an explanation from the person incharge)
