WTF: Woman Says Anti-Abortion Nurse Removed IUD Without Permission, Then Lectured Her

[Lyanthya]

@lel

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?

Correct. Also, this woman doesn’t seem well-informed about birth control. Depo Provera is effective within 24 hours, not 2 weeks.

[starwarsfreek42]

@Lyanthya

Correct. Also, this woman doesn’t seem well-informed about birth control. Depo Provera is effective within 24 hours, not 2 weeks.

I’ve been on and off of Depo for the last 5 years. Every time I start fresh, I am told by each nurse I talk to (one at intake, one who gives me the shot, and one who signs me out) that I must continue to use condoms for two weeks until the shot is in full effect, or risk getting pregnant. Then they offer me a brown paper bag of condoms and spermicide. Every time.

[Asimovian]

@AngryIrishLass

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.

PACER most certainly allows name searches.

The case title is Van Patten v. Olona et al., and the case number is 09-cv-00034. The complaint was filed on the 13th of January with an amended complaint filed the next day. The amendment was apparently adding the United States of America as a defendant, supposedly because Presbyterian Medical Services “acted as an entity of the United States government under the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act.”

There has been no response from the defendant(s) as of yet. I can check on it periodically if people are interested.

[kanicbird]

@Guinastasia

IF the plaintiff is telling the truth, why has this woman not been fired instantly? And even IF what Olona is saying is true, why is anyone allowing her to perform this procedure, if this always seems to happen to her? She’s basically admitting that she’s completely incompetant and shouldn’t be allowed near a patient.

Assuming she is telling the truth it does not mean she is incompetent, nor does it mean she should be fired. She could be doing things exactly how it should be done, exactly how the medical community trained her, and the procedure may be at fault.

[bienville]

@NurseCarmen

Damn. I wish a were a woman with an IUD, a mini tape recorder, and a damn good lawyer.

Damn, it would be so cool if you could simplify matters but getting an IUTape Recorder!!!

[MsRobyn]

@kanicbird

Assuming she is telling the truth it does not mean she is incompetent, nor does it mean she should be fired. She could be doing things exactly how it should be done, exactly how the medical community trained her, and the procedure may be at fault.

IUDs shouldn’t come out with a slight tug. I had mine removed last fall, and it took a good, solid pull for it to come out. There’s also a trick to doing it because the whole thing has to come out more or less intact to ensure that no part of it remains in the uterus.

If someone trained her to do the procedure that way, then she was taught wrong, and at minimum, should be re-trained to do it the right way.

At this point, it’s up to the trier of fact to determine what happened.

Robin

Robin

[cwthree]

@Asimovian

There has been no response from the defendant(s) as of yet. I can check on it periodically if people are interested.

Would you, please? Thanks.

[Agent_Foxtrot]

@Asimovian

PACER most certainly allows name searches.

The case title is Van Patten v. Olona et al., and the case number is 09-cv-00034. The complaint was filed on the 13th of January with an amended complaint filed the next day. The amendment was apparently adding the United States of America as a defendant, supposedly because Presbyterian Medical Services “acted as an entity of the United States government under the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act.”

There has been no response from the defendant(s) as of yet. I can check on it periodically if people are interested.

Yes, please keep us updated. I want to see it that this woman can’t even get certified to wipe the asses of those in PVS.

Poetic justice dictates that some surgically implanted medical device should be pulled from her body cavity without her permission. :mad:

[Lyanthya]

@starwarsfreek42

I’ve been on and off of Depo for the last 5 years. Every time I start fresh, I am told by each nurse I talk to (one at intake, one who gives me the shot, and one who signs me out) that I must continue to use condoms for two weeks until the shot is in full effect, or risk getting pregnant. Then they offer me a brown paper bag of condoms and spermicide. Every time.

I was on and off it for 10 years before I had my tubal, and I was always told 24 hours.

Maybe different nurses are trained differently.

[The_Second_Stone]

@susan

Or perhaps at all. She doesn’t seem to understand her professional ethics or the law very well.

I think she understands them very well, but thinks her story is a clever way to get around them both. Kinda like some people think chugging booze right after getting pulled over will get them out of a DUI.