Re: Workers' Comp for birth injuries (in Trigon/Anthem country)

"Todd Gastaldo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>WORKERS' COMP FOR BIRTH INJURIES... Virginia ACOG's Willett LeHew, MD and
>TRIGON/ANTHEM (Snead/Glasscock), please see the postscripts below.
>
>RELAXIN...
>
>STEVE YEOMANS, DC says:
>
>"Relaxin primarily affects the joints in the pelvis, softening them and
>preparing them for stretching during childbirth..."
>http://www.yeomansdc.com/patient_info/pregnancy.html
>
>OPEN LETTER (archived for global access:
>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2260)
>
>Steve Yeomans, DC
>404 Eureka Street
>Ripon, WI 54971-0263
>Phone (920) 748-3644
>Fax     (920) 748-3642
>(via Mark S. Edinger [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>Steve,
>
>The most common delivery positions - semisitting and dorsal - are
>"ANTI-Relaxin" in a sense.
>
>Semisitting and dorsal are "woman-on-her-back/butt" delivery positions.
>
>Semisitting and dorsal delivery positions place the woman on her sacrum
>thereby closing her birth canal (up to 30%) thereby PREVENTING the joints
in
>the pelvis from stretching during childbirth...
>
>CHIROPRACTIC EMERGENCY:  In addition to routinely closing birth canals up
to
>30%, MDs often GRUESOMELY manipulate babies' spines (push with oxytocin;
>pull with forceps/vacuums) with the birth canal senselessly closed up to
>30%.
>
>An estimated six babies per day DIE from vacuum-assisted spinal manipulation
>alone - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
>
>For documentation of this latter fact - and for details on how EASY it is
>for pregnant women to allow their birth canals to OPEN the "extra" up to
>30%...
>
>See How NOT to do McRoberts maneuver...
>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2258
>
>Steve, I urge you to add this CHIROPRACTIC EMERGENCY to your Pregnancy page.
>
>INFORM pregnant women:  MDs are senselessly closing birth canals and
>gruesomely (sometimes fatally) manipulating most babies' spines at birth.
>
>Pregnant women must be informed how EASY it is for them to allow their birth
>canals to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.
>
>See again:  How NOT to do McRoberts maneuver, URL above.
>
>Thanks for reading,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Todd
>
>Dr. Gastaldo
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>PS1  Steve Yeomans, Workers' Compensation and Birth Injuries...
>
>Sig Miller, Chiropractic Gateway Moderator www.chiropracticgateway.com says,
>
>"Steve Yeomans, DC...teaches the many special documentation considerations
>for worker's compensation cases....Wed - 12/3 @ 1pm EST Dial 512.225.3351,
>access code 993351#"
>
>Steve, why not inform your Wed - 12/3 class that in Virginia some birth
>injuries are now being handled administratively through Workers'
>Compensation, as in,
>
>"Qualifying births are handled administratively through
>the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission."
>http://www.vabirthinjury.com/obgyn_physicians2.htm
>
>Currently, children in Virginia's Birth-Injury Program are said to "fare
>better than children receiving a tort remedy"
>
>I think part of the reason the Workers' Compensation Commission
>administrative remedy is yielding more money for birth-injured babies than
>malpractice lawsuits is that juries aren't yet being told that MDs are
>negligently closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating most babies'
>spines.
>
>
>See Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's Willett
>LeHew, MD
>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2252
>
>
>PS2 Steve, you allude to the fact that NSAIDS should be avoided during
>pregnancy, as in,
>
>"Chiropractic Care for Low Back Pain in Pregnancy? You bet!...Chiropractic
>care is one of the best things that can be done to relieve the expectant
>mother's pain...[D]rugs...can be harmful to her unborn child and [are] thus
>contraindicated during pregnancy."
>http://www.yeomansdc.com/patient_info/pregnancy.html
>
>ACOG's Willett LeHew, MD (mentioned above) was one of the Virginia
>physicians on the Managed Care Advisory Panel that advised Trigon (now
>Anthem) to REWRITE the AHCPR-sponsored Acute Low Back Problems Guideline
and
>DELETE chiropractic-style manipulation.
>
>Since Trigon (now Anthem) distributed the new guideline to many Virginia
>MDs, many Virginia MDs are likely recommending NSAIDS without mentioning
the
>option of chiropractic-style manipulation.
>
>I know personally of one woman who during her pregnancy had low back pain
>and had NSAIDS prescribed.  Before taking any, she did some research and
>wound up telling her MD that pregnant women should avoid NSAIDS...
>
>Since pregnant women should indeed avoid NSAIDS, I'm hoping ACOG's Willett
>LeHew, MD will personally act to get the chiropractic-style manipulation
>option into the Trigon (now Anthem) guideline...
>
>Quite simply, as the obstetrician on Trigon's panel Willett knew better
(or
>SHOULD have known better) than to deny pregnant women the non-drug
>chiropractic-style spinal manipulation option.
>
>Obstetrician Willett's PRIORITY of course should be to STOP the
>GRUESOME-style spinal manipulation of MD-obstetricians - by simply stopping
>them from senselessly closing birth canals.
>
>I'll cc Willett again via the Virginia birth-injury program
>([EMAIL PROTECTED] et al).  Willett has not yet responded.  Nor has
>the Virginia birth-injury program responded - not even to say that my email
>has been forwarded to Willett.
>
>ATTENTION Virginia MD-obstetricians:  You are unnecessarily harming babies
>and sending some to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission...You
are
>unnecessarily draining money from the system to pay for your obvious
>negligence.
>
>AN OBSTETRICIAN BOONDOGGLE...
>
>Part of the "ad" for Virginia's no-fault birth injury program...
>
>"No Expensive & Time Consuming Court Case - Through this unique program,
>should a qualifying birth-injury occur, you would not face an expensive
and
>possibly difficult court case. You also do not have to spend hours or days
>out of the office. Qualifying births are handled administratively through
>the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission....When you participate, you
>are entitled by law to a malpractice coverage credit from your insurance
>company. This credit varies by each insurance carrier, however, in many
>cases it covers most or all of the cost of participating in the Birth-Injury
>Program...As a no-fault program, qualifying events are not reported to the
>National Practitioner Database."
>http://www.vabirthinjury.com/obgyn_physicians2.htm
>
>MD-obstetricians:  If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - FIRST
>get women off their backs/butts.  During delivery, women should not be made
>to close their birth canals up to 30%.
>
>Final note:  One of the most important lessons learned at chiropractic
>college is when NOT to manipulate the spine.  The most prolific spinal
>manipulators - MD-obstetricians - should NOT be manipulating tiny spines
>with birth canals closed.
>
>Again, thanks for reading,
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Todd
>
>Dr. Gastaldo
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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