Alliance for Patient Safety

                            All that is necessary for the triumph of evil...
                                                                ... is for good men to do nothing.

                                                                                                   Edmund Burke

Synopsis of Alleged Improper Delivery of a Baby

Physician allegedly deviated from hospital's guidelines for nurses by asking that nurse assist him in the delivery of a baby with "fundal pressure" and M.D. applying a vacuum on fetal head more than three times.

In fact there was no violation of any physicians' standard of care. The mother and the baby were in good health and complimented the obstetrican dor his outstanding care (AR 5251, paragraph 26; AR 5476-5478)

Adapted from Appellant's Opening Brief page 6-7 filed 1/15/2004 by Roger Diamond, Esq. in Mileikowsky vs. Tenet, et al.

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