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you know in childbirth it it’s such
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that’s such an emotional issue to begin
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with but it
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involves the physician the
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nurse some other health care provider
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not doing and taking care of the mom and
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the baby like they should and it’s
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called violation of the standard of care
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there are certain standards that we’re
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all held to but particularly healthc
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Care Professionals and so if they do
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something that violates what the
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reasonable nurse doctor respiratory
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therapist whatever the health care
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professional is would do or should have
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done and as a result mom or the baby are
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injured then there could be a uh action
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against the healthc care provider they
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can do things like the baby is monitored
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electronically to see how it heartbeat
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is doing uh during during labor labor is
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a very stressful one to baby and so you
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can monitor whether that baby is
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handling that stress well or not but
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sometimes unfortunately the healthc care
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professional misses clues that they see
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on the monitor or they they miss things
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that indicates the baby’s having trouble
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that’s one example uh you can have
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instruments fa where where the where the
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physician for example has forceps in
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delivering the baby and as a result uh
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the baby’s injured from the improper use
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of those forceps there are situations
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where a cerian section should be done
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all the signs and symptoms are there we
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need to get the baby out as soon as
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possible and the surgeon doesn’t do so
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or the nurse doesn’t tell the surgeon
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that there’s or the obstetrician that
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there’s a problem so those are all
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issues that when we see one of these
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cases we we start investigating we start
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looking at the facts we look at the
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medical records what the documentation
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was all of those things for us to get an
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idea of whether there is or is not uh
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some kind whether there’s some
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negligence we obviously consult experts
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on the case and once we do that then we
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can better advise you as a client uh
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whether you have a case or not uh or
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potential case I emphasize that whenever
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you think there’s an issue we encourage
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people come and talk to us as soon as
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you can with we’ll have a confidential
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conference we’ll look at we’ll look at
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what’s going on and then give you the
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advice that that that we think is best
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but you have to watch out there’s a time
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limit in Florida as to how long you have
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before you can sue that’s why it’s
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important to come talk to us as soon as
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you think there might be an issue