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Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance'

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A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there.
Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child.
But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.

Read more: Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance' | Mail Online
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Yeah, this is the healthcare changes we should strive for, she gave birth for FREE!
 
A midwife can't call 911 for you. She should have called 911. 911 would have sent an ambulance. Crazy non-story. Most drs. offices won't call you an ambulance. But they will advise you to hang up and call 911.
 
oops nevermind. Happened in the UK -have no idea how stuff works there. :3oops:
 
Nothing to do with government health care. If you are hurt you don't call the doctor working in the ER asking them to send help. You call the emergency response service directly.
 
I don't understand. Did she really only have time to call the doctor before the baby started coming out? Did it really take her by surprise so much that she didn't have time to call an ambulance after making this call?:doh
 
It can happen, esp w/ babies that aren't the first.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
I don't understand. Did she really only have time to call the doctor before the baby started coming out? Did it really take her by surprise so much that she didn't have time to call an ambulance after making this call?:doh
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I guess it can happen. There was a husband and wife on the news some months back, the wife was only in labor for about 5 minutes.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
I don't understand. Did she really only have time to call the doctor before the baby started coming out? Did it really take her by surprise so much that she didn't have time to call an ambulance after making this call?:doh
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Yeah -- lots of conflicting information in the story posted by the hyper-partisan grand master of pointing out irrelevant international news stories to muddy U.S. health care reform discussions.

Thanks vicchio for keeping as real as you possibly can...:roll::roll:
 
LOL She was a football field's length from the hospital. She could have walked there faster than any ambulance could have gotten to her, gotten her loaded up, and drove her there. If an ambulance was sent, and she was really that far along in labor, she would have given birth before they got there.

And, if she had time to call the midwife, she had time to call the ambulance herself.
 
Her having to walk around probably speeded up the delivery a great deal, too. It was a bit irresponsible not to send an ambulance across the street to get her, but on the other hand, how were they supposed to know it would happen so fast? The woman didn't even realize it herself until it was too late or she would have screamed into the receiver that the baby was coming NOW and they would have sent help.
 
Err is it just me or is this woman a grade A idiot?

First off its her 3rd child. What does she do when the times comes unexpectedly? Calls the midwife!?!?!.. who does not have an ambulance..

Then she calls the hospital...... who does not have a freaking ambulance...

How about calling 999 or 112 so the emergency services can actually send an ambulance?

But I guess MrVicchio in his usual attempt to :spin: and attack UHC (or anything else) actually forgot to read the rest of the article and contemplate on what it said, and instead focused on the claims of a deranged woman.. " i was refused an ambulance"..

NO the moron never CALLED an ambulance so nothing was refused.
 
Arcana XV said:
Her having to walk around probably speeded up the delivery a great deal, too. It was a bit irresponsible not to send an ambulance across the street to get her, but on the other hand, how were they supposed to know it would happen so fast? The woman didn't even realize it herself until it was too late or she would have screamed into the receiver that the baby was coming NOW and they would have sent help.
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There is no ambulance at the hospital so what should they send.. a food cart to carry her in? No she is a moron and should be treated as such.
 
PeteEU said:
There is no ambulance at the hospital so what should they send.. a food cart to carry her in? No she is a moron and should be treated as such.
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Interesting, though, how you'll clamp on to any anecdote which make American health care seem deficient. Or, indeed, anything else about America.
 
PeteEU said:
There is no ambulance at the hospital so what should they send.. a food cart to carry her in? No she is a moron and should be treated as such.
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You're right. They would have just hung up on her and left her to her own devices if the emergency was obvious. Come on, Pete. They were right across the street. :lol:
 
Arcana XV said:
You're right. They would have just hung up on her and left her to her own devices if the emergency was obvious. Come on, Pete. They were right across the street. :lol:
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And they are busy with patients.. Ever call a hospital? You get a switchboard, not a person trained in emergency help.

My point is if you are in need of emergency services, regardless if the hospital is 100 m away, you call the emergency services and not a midwife and not the freaking hospital. She is a moron end of story.
 
Harshaw said:
Interesting, though, how you'll clamp on to any anecdote which make American health care seem deficient. Or, indeed, anything else about America.
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This is about the UK first off, and has nothing to do with America or the UHC system of the UK. The OP attempts to make it so though and fails horribly based on the facts in the article he posts himself....
 
PeteEU said:
This is about the UK first off, and has nothing to do with America or the UHC system of the UK. The OP attempts to make it so though and fails horribly based on the facts in the article he posts himself....
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I guess you completely misunderstood what I said.
 
For the faults of the NHS we have amazing services for pregnant women. They get more attention than I would with a broken leg.
 
Arcana XV said:
You're right. They would have just hung up on her and left her to her own devices if the emergency was obvious. Come on, Pete. They were right across the street. :lol:
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I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US, not all hospitals have ambulances actually AT the hospital. When I worked on an ambulance, we most certainly were not stationed at a hospital. We were stationed at various locations all over the county so as to be close to as many people as possible.
 
rivrrat said:
I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US, not all hospitals have ambulances actually AT the hospital. When I worked on an ambulance, we most certainly were not stationed at a hospital. We were stationed at various locations all over the county so as to be close to as many people as possible.
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Well, no. But they would have surely been able to send someone across the street to assist her. Or, if she had made it clear to the midwife that time was of the essence the midwife would have called an ambulance for her. Chances are she would have delivered before getting to the hospital no matter what.
 
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