While I don't put much stock in home birth horror stories as evidence that home birth is less safe than hospital (because I don't know how they compare to the number of
hospital horror stories), I put even LESS stock in «I would have died if I hadn't been in the hospital» stories.
And I would bet that
the hospital horror stories are more to do with the womens «feelings» about her birth experience rather than the actual damaged / dead babies from the home birth horror stories.
Not exact matches
Among the fairly standard labor
horror stories of epidurals not working and not quite making it to the
hospital is the doctor being all «you're not ready yet.»
I've heard far worse
horror stories of women in the
hospital who've given birth and doctors nearly killed them.
Instead, I (mostly) heard
horror stories of traumatic births, shared in painful detail, all meant to try to persuade me into having a home birth instead of a delivering in a
hospital with doctors, nurses, and access to pain medication.
Because of
hospital «
horror stories»?
When I said the word «homebirth» to ANYONE I got a host of
horror stories that always ended the same «and if i hadn't of been at the
hospital my baby would of DIED»: /
After all the
horror stories I've read about some of the NPI
hospitals, I'm not surprised that many might stay away from
hospital birth there.
Actually, most women choose homebirth because of all the «
horror stories» that they hear about the
hospitals / obs / doctors / nurses.
Most parents have heard at least one
horror story about a child whose stomachache turned out to be appendicitis, requiring a rush to the
hospital and emergency surgery.
The NCB community clings to the past while painting a
horror story of
hospital birth.
It is ridiculous, and disgusting, but it seems as if every single person that I talk to, who has recently had a
hospital birth has
horror stories.
Hospital Birth
Horror Story (no death, though).
Pediatric allergist John Lee, director of the Food Allergy Program at Boston Children's
Hospital, has heard more than his share of
horror stories.
«American
Horror Story» is adding Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare In Love) to its new
hospital ward.
Based on the comic series originally started by Chris Claremont and Bill McLeod (though heavily inspired by the art of Bill Sienkiewicz), the film will be the franchise's first straight - up
horror film, and it looks as though the
story will primarily take place within the confines of a dilapidated
hospital.
Among his other television credits is the ABC comedy series «Big Shots,» in which he starred with Michael Vartan and Dylan McDermott; memorable recurring arcs on Ryan Murphy's «American
Horror Story»; USA Network's drama «In Plain Sight»; «The Big Bang Theory»; «NUMB3RS»; and HBO's «The Larry Sanders Show» as Kenny, the shockingly uncreative creative executive; the Tom Hanks HBO production of «From the Earth to the Moon»; «Tracey Takes On...»; the telefilm «How to Marry a Billionaire»; «Extant»; «Children's
Hospital»; «Psych»; «Bones»; «House»; «CSI»; «Law & Order: SVU»; Medium»; «Grey's Anatomy»; «Terminator: The Sarag Connor Chronicles»; and the ABC Family Channel original «See Jane Date.»
It is not REALLY a
horror story other than the
horror of the conditions at the mental
hospital and how the patients are treated.
I'd wanted to include true events in my
story — the emergence of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner at Bellevue
Hospital; the worldwide influenza epidemic; the
horrors of World War I, and the infamous poisoning of the radium girl dial painters.
Torture cells, prison buildings, an onsite
hospital, asylum and town centre line the river and offer tales of suicide, mistreatment and
horror stories.
Perhaps one positive outcome of the latest
horror story is that safe rooms in public buildings such as schools and
hospitals will be mandated, given that they are apparently not all that expensive.
We all heard the
horror stories when a friend of a friend went on a rafting trip in that foreign adventure, broke his leg and ended up getting airlifted to the nearest
hospital.
I'd been told so many
horror stories: it was the worst pain one friend had ever experienced, another told me she needed morphine, even the gyno warned it could be so difficult — due to my virgin cervix and caesarean scarring — that I'd have to be booked into a
hospital for a general anaesthetic.