Here is the stateline program where they talk about the coroner wanting more powers of investigation.
I am very sad for the loss of the woman in the clip, but I don’t think that she understands that it is very unlikely that they would ever find a reason for her loss, even if the coroner did a post mortem and investigation. She is only looking for something to blame for her baby’s death. The thought that no baby should ever die isn’t healthy for the continuation of the human race and just isn’t realistic.
Clutching his Large appendage.
Dr Lavender from the AMA had a small lobotomy before launching into yet another attack on homebirth, completely missing out the issue and ploughing over what could be a change with huge and devastating implications for Obstetricians.
Dr Lavender’s hatred of homebirth means he didn’t think about the implications. Very few deaths happen at home but almost 3000 babies were still born at hospitals last year. If every death in utero is investigated Obstetricians will have a nightmare. If the Coroners decision stands then GTOPS who are born alive will need to be kept alive, a PEA has to be present for an organ donation to happen right to life will have a field day.
I was surprised that a program about the coroner and the law on still birth could be so easily moved to a debate on homebirth where Lavender drops in that stupid stat from the editorial of the SA homebirth study. There are so many important issues he could have talked about but didn’t.
he has made it totally clear that his prejudice of homebirth (and I have no illusion that getting me along the way is important)means that he can’t see the wood for the trees. I also feel it is the agenda of the state coroners office making it a state government issue with homebirth too.
shoulder dystocia is an emergency that bricks and mortar don’t control, just last week in SA there was a Shoulder dyctocia at a private hospital in this state where a baby died.
I can’t imagine his Obstetric colleagues thanking him for the lack of support. It’ll probably be good for the coroners office though, can you imagine how many people they will have to employ…..
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Perhaps Dr Lavender needs to read Peter Singers “Practical Ethics”.
This may the best thing to come down the pipeline in a while Lisa if we will get a better look at those 3000 hospital born stillbirths and the contributing factors surrounding them. Sorry you’re in the line of fire.
Well, maybe it will be a roundabout thing. Women will birth underground while the obstetrical industry dies.