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charmcitygirl
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I'm leaving my OB practice after they abandonded me during labor and deliery
charmcitygirl
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I was in the hospital from Thursday at midnight until 10pm last night and I never saw any of the 7 doctors from my OB practice. Can you believe that?
Thursday night the on-call OB was not at the hospital and was giving instructions to my nurse over the phone. When I walked over to L & D on Friday morning, I saw one of the doctors from my practice (the one who was on call the night before) in street clothes leaving the hospital.
While I was in Iabor, I saw the house doctor who was covering for this doctor who had just left. The nurse assumed that he was only covering for a short amount of time. Well, it turns out that he was covering for my entire practice until Saturday evening.
I felt like the house OB was great. He was attentive, caring and I had a great delivery. He checked on me on Saturday and before he left, he discharged me. Then on Sunday, I never saw an OB - not another house doctor or someone from my practice.
I talked to my maternal health nurse about it and she said that it was not at all in good practice to not see a patient at all when she is in the hospital. She didn't think it was terrible that the house doctor was covering for part of the weekend, but the fact that on Friday - a normal work day when there would have been more than 1 doctor in the office - no one came to see me was just wrong. And did I mention that the office for my OB is attached to the hospital?!
I am LIVID. I cannot even tell you how abandonded and unsupported I felt by my doctors all weekend. This week, I plan to contact them and tell them exactly what I think of their care. I will probably go to see them for my 6 week appt because I guess I want to follow through with this whole pregnancy.
And then I'm leaving them. And I will bad talk them to whoever will listen! And believe me...they will know why I'm leaving.
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Re: I'm leaving my OB practice after they abandonded me during labor and deliery
Because we're fancy like that.
WhaT!?! That is terrible- I am so sorry. I love my OB so, so much. I am so sorry you didn't have a good experience.
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That is complete and utter BS in my book. You are handling this exactly how I would.
Not acceptable.
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My jaw is on my desk. That is AWFUL! Just awful. I especially cannot believe you didn't see a single doctor Sunday.
You have every right to leave the practice. If I were you, I wouldn't even go back for my 6wk PP check up.
Is this even legal, to not be seen by a doctor for 24 hours while in the hospital? IDK, it just seems wrong on so many levels.
That is terrible. I'd be very upset as well.
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I love them, but agree they def have a time management problem.....
ETA: nevermind! I see you moved to SS. I thought you were still in Balto....
omg, they can not think that is okay!!!! I would be very pissed!!!
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UGH! This is why I left my original practice...I got passed around from dr to dr and they treated me like a number. I left them at 6 months pg.
IMHO I wouldn't bother going back - I would use your 6 wk follow up as a way to start off with a new OB and write a letter to the old practice.
That's awful and completely unprofessional. ZThe fact that the practice is attached to the hospital only makes their behavior and lack of consideration even more unacceptable.
Good for you for not accepting that crap. I'd leave them too, and not before making it known to the practice. I'm sure there are plenty of wonderful, caring OBs in your area.
I'm curious as to how that billing will work. I'd watch my insurance EOBs very carefully, and make sure they aren't billing for ZERO work.
I can't imagine not being seen by any of my OBs. My OB was there every day to see me...and so were the pediatricians. That's crazy...I'd leave too!!
That makes me so sad. I know at our hosptial, if a patient is in past midnight, they HAVE to been seen by a doc before leaving. I hope you address this with them when it comes to billing as well. We have a 'maternity package' billing, I would not want them to get $$ for the delivery.
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That's atrocious, and I'm so sorry. Will the house OB see you for your six-week check? Personally I'd want it done by whoever delivered.
Also, did you know you can review doctors on Angie's List? Just sayin'
Ditto this!
That is just terrible. I would definitely leave and I wouldn't bother with the 6 week pp either.
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Totally unacceptable. My dr was sick as a dog and she still came to see me, wearing a mask. I didn't see a dr the day I discharged, but it was my decision to leave before the on call dr could get to the hospital (it was my dr's day off).
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I would be livid too. Absolutely give them a piece of your mind before you leave the practice. I would also put a little review on ra.temd or similar website, but I am just mean like that.
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Wow. This is shocking to me. The fact that you had a planned induction makes it even more shocking. IMO, that should have only been planned for a day/time when your OB was able to be there.
In my first pregnancy, I (of course) went into labor when my OB was out of town on vacation. One of the other OBs from the practice did my delivery, and my OB came in to see me the next day. With my second, I had an unplanned induction and was admitted (again, of course) on the day my OB is not in the office. I spent a lot of time with another OB from the practice that first day and decided it would be reasonable to wait until morning (it was around 5pm at that point) to start the induction. So then my OB was able to come in the next day to do it. And she saw me the next day, too. (In WA you're only in the hospital 24 hours unless there are complications.)
Go as high as you can go. They are clearly not in it for the long haul here. The delivery is what you've been working up to this whole time...It's the big finale of their care (other than PP). I just find this completely absurd that they would pass you off to the hospital's house doctor. You have every right to be livid.
Same thing happened to me.
An OB from my practice showed up only twice for the birth, once to break my water and then they nearly missed the birth, I had Liam about 3 minutes after the OB entered the delivery room. I had Liam at 12:47am Saturday, I was told by a nurse that since I had him after midnight then I'm not checked by an OB for 24 hours which I find ridiculous. Then I decided to go home on Sunday since I was feeling ok. It took forever to locate an OB, who sauntered in, handed me discharge paperwork and left. They never even checked me.
Then, I had mastitis twice and was brushed off just basically handed antibiotics so that I would leave. When the OB was stitching me up from my 1st degree tear, something that only required 1 stick, she decided to get creative with the stitching, and now I have a tiny pocket that never closed.....
I haven't been back since they released me at 8 weeks.
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My practice was the same way. It was a huge practice, and yet not a single one of their doctors was there when I had Ava or the twins. I almost switched after Ava, but I felt that their prenatal care was outstanding, and with the twins, I didn't want to switch to a new practice that I knew nothing about. I loved the doctors that delivered me both times, and they were great in the hospital after the births, too. But, I kept wondering why they made me rotate through all the doctors in the practice if not a single one would be there. My RE actually came to visit me after both deliveries, though -- that was so sweet.
Sorry you had such an experience -- but so glad that Daniel is here safe and sound!
It's likely that if it is a group practice in network that they billed your insurance for a global maternity/delivery fee and were already paid. If it were me, I'd be so pissed about the lack of care AND getting paid for doing nothing that I'd put it on my to do list to straighten out when you feel up to it.
I changed OBs mid-pregnancy due to a lack of care from an OB group and that group had already billed and been paid for a set amount of care, which they then didn't have to provide. My other OB was awesome and saw me several times a day every day for my entire 4 day induction and 4 day stay after my cesarean. He performed the surgery himself and was just awesome.