Birth trauma attorney always right?

Attorney Pamela Pantages tells UBPN listers that her legal work is "always
right"...

"If there is money on the table when your case goes to trial, then that
money is yours to lose. A trial is a gamble, pure and simple. And being a
parent myself, I am not inclined to take risks where my children are
concerned...I work regularly with the doctors at TCH, and at other bpi
centers in the country, with other trial lawyers who represent injured
children and their families, and with many of you. All of us want the best
for these children, and I continue to believe that while the work we do is
sometimes difficult, it is always right."
--Attorney Pamela Pantages
http://www.ubpn.org/messageboard/thr...17&thread=8664

OPEN LETTER (instantly archived for global access at:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2367)

Attorney Pamela Pantages
17 South Main Street at Maiden Lane Suite 201
Akron, Ohio 44308
Telephone: 330-376-6766
Fax: 330-376-7344


Pamela,

I think it is always WRONG when attorneys (as is usually the case) fail to
mention to parents and juries that obstetricians are knowingly closing birth
canals by placing women semisitting or dorsal at delivery.

Obstetricians indirectly ADMIT (on video!) that they are closing birth
canals!

See ACOG birth crime video evidence
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2300

Here's the same indirect admission in The Merck Manual:

"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to
increase the
diameter of the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp

WHY WAIT TILL THE BABY'S SHOULDERS GET STUCK?!

Note: Merely hyperflexing the mother's thighs is BAD McRoberts and does NOT
increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet!

See again: ACOG birth crime video evidence
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2300

Here are the simple grisly biomechanics of semisitting (and dorsal)
delivery clearly stated more recently by Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the
British National Health
Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal Institute/WMPI...

"...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is
therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of
the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm

Jason Gardosi, MD also notes - same site - an alternative method of
GOOD McRoberts. Cool!

The strange thing is - Jason Gardosi, MD et al. also recommend
semisitting delivery (closing birth canal)!!!

Visitors to the just cited WMPI website read in WMPI's Pregnancy
Notes

"The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped
up with pillows...As you push, try to
let yourself 'open up' below..."
http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm

Sorry to get E-motional but... ARRGGGGHHHH! WMPI (Jason Gardosi, MD
director) recommends both opening and closing the birth canal at delivery!

Attorney Anthony Mancini indicates he won't (can't?) mention to juries that
obstetricians are knowingly closing birth canals - unless a "credible"
OB/GYN is there to say it!

See Attorney looking for 'credible' OB/GYNs...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2360

I replied to Anthony that he needs a BRAVE "credible" OB/GYN - one who is
not afraid to render his entire profession susceptible to criminal
prosecution and massive civil damages.

I suggested to Anthony that OB/GYNs MUST close birth canals because stopping
would be tantamount to admitting a horrible massive crime that sometimes
kills and paralyzes babies.

Pamela, you say you are not inclined to take risks where your children are
concerned.

If you continue to fail to mention to parents and juries that obstetricians
are knowingly closing birth canals...

You are taking risks where OTHER parents' children are concerned.

The fact that obstetricians are KEEPING birth canals closed when shoulders
get stuck (BAD McRoberts; see above) should also be mentioned to parents and
juries.

Of course, since (as you say) you work regularly with the doctors at TCH and
at other bpi centers in the country - and with other trial lawyers - you
should make sure THEY are aware that obstetricians are knowingly closing
birth canals by placing women semisitting or dorsal at delivery.

If I am wrong - if you HAVE been telling juries and parents - BRAVO!

I am not ALWAYS right in my work - but I think I am right about attorneys
(including you) mysteriously not telling juries and parents that OBs are
knowingly closing birth canals by placing women semisitting or dorsal at
delivery.

If you did not KNOW that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals, etc. - well
now you know!

Start telling parents and juries!

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Copied to: Attorney Michael M. Djordjevic at

PS I will post this reply on UBPN's message board by clicking "reply" in
your message...

UBPN moderators/censors are not letting my posts through - yet.

UBPN claims to be interested in PREVENTION but is silent about obstetricians
closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth canals closed when
shoulders get stuck!

For details...

See Why my baby? Attorneys trolling bad births - GOOD...UBPN silence -
BAD...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2366

I will bcc this post too to UBPN Pres. Nancy Birk and her fellow board
members: Cathy
Kanter, Peggy Ferguson, Kim West, Sabrina Randolph, Jennifer Engelhardt,
Krista Heikkinen, Richard Looby, Kathleen M. Mallozzi, Karen McClune and
Tami Schenck



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