holy fucking shit I would have burned that hospital to the ground
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Once the baby arrived at the funeral home, Watkins said he noticed the baby’s head “was separated from the body,” adding: “Something was not right … this baby should have come from the medical center’s office.”
Usually there are rules that certain kinds of events have mandatory autopsies or mandatory investigations. If a decapitated infant isn't one of those... Maybe it's just so unusual that a rule wasn't ever put in place. sounds like something that would be obvious to look into.
I looked up the obgyn on the georgia medical board linked in the article (license #54127) and I do not see anything to indicate an investigation. I hope they have initiated this in addition to other measures.
There was a moment like halfway in where I was like "well there was a complication with the birth" and then it was like "wait, why not just do an emergency c-section at that point?" to then realize they did eventually do the c-section but only after snapping the baby's neck. It's almost instinct to try to see the other side for these medical horror stories considering I work in healthcare, but then I remember the cases where the hospital I worked at for my first year covered up my coworker's neglect leading to a man lying dead on the floor for >6 hours or an ICU nurse attempting to get blood from a corpse while I got shitcanned for telling someone to fuck off after they called me a slur. They seem to insist that it was a postmortem detachment but how does the head just come off? You had to really apply some serious force to decapitate a baby. The cover-up is even worse, that they think just wrapping the baby up and pretending it's all good. How many people were in on this? I get that you don't necessarily rock the boat in fear of losing your job/getting blackballed, but this seems rather clear cut.
Like that one case of the nurse pulling the wrong drug that got charged, I can see it being human error but paired with poor procedure. I also can imagine that she was overworked and the hospital's systems requiring an override for every pull destroying the few safeguards that should've been in place. The nurse made an error and that error caused direct harm, but that hospital also tried to cover it up and threw her under the bus downplaying their own significant flaws in favor of the nurse being the sole person responsible.
In this situation it's beyond overlooking the name of a drug on a bottle and not doing the right procedure because you've just gotten used to shortcuts, this is making a bad decision, running with it, continuing to run with it, realizing you fucked up horribly, attempting to salvage it, realizing you fucked up even worse, covering it up, covering it up more, getting found out, and then just walking away because there's no justice in this world.
The separation of the head from the fetal body
*Lowers sunglasses* Damn that’s some passive voice.