Now The Doctors are Taking Umbilical Cord Blood Without Consent

I'm totally skipping ahead here, but it warrants asking if it hasn't been asked. Did your wife (or you on her behalf) sign any paperwork before anything was done or given in the hospital? Yes? Did you bother to read any of it? No? Then I don't feel sorry for you. I had c-sections with both of mine, and they were not pre-scheduled. I went into labor naturally, and went in when I felt it was the right time. I was, surprisingly, not chastised for that (they did not care either way) What I did do in the hospital was since it was undecided which one I was going to go to up until literally driving there, was to read every single piece of paper that came my way (uncomfortable, but doable with contractions) I remember a consent paper detailing taking cord blood for disease & disorder sampling after birth, and it didn't bother me. You likely signed the same one without reading it.

Even in the heat of medical chaos, it's one's duty to read the paperwork they're signing. If you sign for it, you consent to it, and that's whether or not you actually read it. The lesson here is to never rush through paperwork, and to read every single letter on the page before you scribble a signature or initial here, here, and print there.

reply to post by Nyiah


I agree with you fully.

My guess is that someone who can not spell CONSENT correctly would have learned how by reading the consent form (since it says "consent" all over it). Since the simple spelling of the word was not learned, logic would dictate that he never actually read the forms.

Unless he really did mean "CONCENT"

concent [kənˈsɛnt]
n
Archaic a concord, as of sounds, voices, etc.
[from Latin concentus harmonious sounds, from concinere to sing together, from canere to sing]

If he never gave concent, the poor doctors would have never heard his beautiful voice singing in harmony his opposition to simple routine medical tests.

Had the blood-sample the doctor took shown up any illness or abnormality from analysing the sample would you have denied the baby treatment?
No, didn't think so.

oh, on to being a spelling nazi... nice touch

All that paper work was read at the time of arrival and re-read at home because I wanted some answers... no mention of cord blood...

Any way, I'm done with beaches...

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