I would be interested in watching this case on court tv. It isn’t as ‘glamorous’ as a nice quadruple murder case, but it has promise to be a very good watercooler convo for a good long while.
I look forward to the updates, discussions and arguments on this case.
I’m wondering about this, too – whether OBGYNS can ‘accidentally’ remove IUDs from new patients, then be legally excused from replacing them (or recommending someone else who can).
The legal complaint (see post #21) says she is a nurse practitioner. Hope that doesn’t screw up the lawsuit.
Also, the activity took place two years ago, but the online complaint copy isn’t dated. It could have been filed within the last few days to beat a statute of limitations.
I asked a member of a licensing board here, who said that it’s pretty common for suits and complaints to mis-designate a degree or license, and didn’t think it would matter as long as the defendant had not misrepresented her own credentials.
Some questions:
How much pain is involved if the damn thing DOES pop out with a very light tug? Is it customary to give a little tug after trimming the string?
Is it customary for NPs/PAs to do such trimming?
Would you keep a PA/NP who kept having such problems?
I saw a PA for some years, and was quite happy to have him as my primary care provider, but part of the reason I liked him was that he knew exactly what his limits were. He was just dandy at lasering off warts, and lancing and draining boils. He was able to figure out which antibiotic was best for me. He was great at performing a pelvic, both in his manner and in his technical skills. He talked me into going on insulin when oral antidiabetics weren’t enough. And when I had a bloody discharge from my nipple, he took a sample…and told me that I’d probably need to see a specialist, as he wasn’t certified to handle that sort of problem. I think that NPs/PAs can be great assets to a clinic, as a general rule.
Anywhere from none at all to a lot. I never tugged the string after trimming.
If they’re trained in it, sure.
It would depend on the big picture. Not if they were moralizing to the patients. But if IUDs just kept popping out around them, I might just change their duties to not include IUDS.
I’ve had PAs & NPs I trusted a lot more than some physicians I know.
Out of curiosity, where are you doing these trimmings? I always thought your clientele consisted of men only… And if not, why do your female clients need birth control? Do they have conjugal visits?
I’ve only been in corrections for less than 7 years. I did 18 years of family medical practice before that, including a lot of routine obstetrics and gynecology, along with a stint working at Planned Parenthood.
Wow, that’s crazy. Don’t they know how important it is to get these facts straight so random people on the internet can look up their work history?
It’s easy enough to figure out that if you get into women’s health, it’s quite likely you’ll be dispensing birth control. There are a number of medical specialties that would not involve dispensing birth control, right?
Proctology would be one.
I really don’t know what to say–there are so many levels of wrong here (on the part of the accused–if she has done all that she is accused of).
IMO, health care works best when the agenda is the care of the patient. Seems obvious and almost silly, but there it is…
Oh yeah. Fucking HILARIOUS. :rolleyes:
Again, the only evidence of this statement is the plaintiff’s complaint. We don’t have the nurse on video saying it, or submitting it via a response to filings. We only have the plaintiff’s CLAIM that she said this.
I would be interested in finding another source for the claims, too. So far, there’s ONE version of the events that I can find. I do find a lot of blogs and MBs that comment on that one story, but I do want to hear the other side.
When it comes to court, I imagine the clinic’s records would reflect whether there were an inordinate number of incidences like the plaintiff’s.
Would the plaintiff’s attorney be able to access those records? Would he be able to get the names of other patients who had the same experience with this nurse, and subpeona them?
If it is accurate that she’s been joking with staff about this, it would not be necessary to breach patients’ privacy. If it needed to be shown that she had a higher-than-average number of these events, records could be examined without subpoenaing the patients.
Damn. I wish a were a woman with an IUD, a mini tape recorder, and a damn good lawyer.
FWIW, this is a draft of the Complaint prior to filing. If it were a copy of the actual filed Complaint there would be the filing information across the top, including the assignment of a document number. Unless you are pro se, all federal court filings in NM must be done online as PDF documents. I can’t pull up the docket without the cause number as it does not allow name searches.
I’m curious why there isn’t a medical malpractice claim and instead a straight constitutional claim, battery, and negligent retention. I wonder if filing it as such was a way to get around NM’s required use of the the medical legal panel and/or malpractice caps.
According to the 2008 list of PAs Ms. Olono’s working at the state pen. (pg. 166) and her license is still active just search her last name.
It seems to work when the anti-abortion people pull a sting on Planned Parenthood. It works like this:
Lie, bullshit, make up some impossible story, and see how the nurse reacts. Spread around the carefully edited video. Nurse fired because, get this, had the story not been bullshit, the nurse would have broken the law. I see little difference.
I completely agree that we as a society are too quick to say “he should lose his job!” whenever anybody makes any error at all. But how many of us post from work?