"it clearly wasn't an emergency or the OP wouldn't be here to tell the tale!" Pure luck! And no thanks to the hcps treating her that object to DOING THEIR JOB!
The next woman may not be so lucky, the woman before who's too distressed herself or recovering or their family is too distressed to complain maybe wasn't so lucky.
I would not be at all surprised if it were to be discovered there had been major illness or death resulting from the inaction by these hcps.
Oh - and in my opinion you've let your mask slip!
Because anyone who has genuinely trained or practiced as an hcp KNOWS that emergency treatment isn't only for the saving of life, it's for the prevention of further harm too.
"nor did you die, or in fact come to any harm at all"
I would say it's far too bloody early to be making assumptions on this!
"Quince comes across to me as someone who knows their stuff. Other posters on this thread... possibly not so much." Completely agree!
I'm genuinely wondering if certain posters are administrators from the hospital concerned. The more they post the less I believe they're hcps.
"so he and his colleagues could avoid doing any work/could go and play golf {less likely scenario})" are you fucking kidding with this mocking, trivialising BULLSHIT!?!
At NO POINT has ANYONE suggested the reasons were trivial or purely due to laziness!!
The decision to delay treatment was quite obviously and ADMITTEDLY (have YOU forgotten the dr that was honest with op and told her this was why it wasn't being done?!) due to religious objections of staff NOT because the clinical need had changed!
"Dr diagnosed there was still a live foetus in situ (either because he felt he could detect a heartbeat"
There was no obvious heartbeat! His "feelings" are irrelevant! His clinical, objective assessment was what SHOULD have been in play, not his personal religious beliefs.
"Astonishing gaslighting going on here" I'm not astonished it's happening. Between personal experience both as a patient and a hcp, plus much discussion on here including a thread of my own discussing the entrenched misogyny in medicine that aspect doesn't surprise me at all.
What I am shocked at is certain people claiming to be hcps when the more they say makes it more and more likely to me they aren't and never have been.
Trying their damnedest to dissuade her from complaining doesn't surprise me in the least.
I suspect quince knows exactly what I mean when I say this is a major issue in the Nhs.
"Most people training to be a GP have to rotate through O&G." Training to be a GP - also a choice and also one which involves dealing with contraception and abortion. People with religious objections to these shouldn't be GP's either!