Good Samaritan Medical Center Review
I was severely injured and almost murdered in the Good Samaritan Medical Center Labor and Delivery unit. The hospital covered up the incident by falsifying the medical records.
I planned a physiological birth without interventions. Physiological birth implies getting in time to the hospital to labor down for a while there to get accustomed to the birthing environment to feel comfortable, safe and at home (the earlier you get there, the better), also labor must be allowed to proceed absolutely undisturbed unless there are complications. Physiological birth also implies that the cord must not be cut prior to the delivery of the placenta, thus not incurring hormonal injury, placental delivery issues, or a hemorrhage. Once this is accomplished you have to wait for the umbilical cord to clamp on its own and only then you cut it.
My birth plan was completely disregarded and as I would later learn not out of medical necessity. I was defrauded by the midwife (Kathleen Philbin) that I was fully dilated and that I had to be coached to push the baby. I would later learn from court depositions that Philbin is a proponent of coached pushing, she believes that her guidance is superior to that of your own body. She also states that an induction is the same as natural labor. In her deposition taken less than a year before I had the misfortune to employ her she claims to have participated in the delivery of over 1,500 babies. To me she claimed that she had delivered over 3,000. Reading the court documents I realized that Philbin’s only competency is to lead you confidently in the wrong direction, lie to you and steal your money. This individual knows less than me about birth and I am the patient. Moreover, she demanded that I pay for her “services” months prior to the delivery. I assume she knew that if she requested money after the so called “services” were rendered nobody would want to pay her.
My contraction pattern registered by the fetal monitor unequivocally shows that I was nowhere near full dilation and I had not yet reached transition at the time I was coerced to start pushing. In between pushes the midwife broke my water without permission. My contraction pattern also unequivocally shows the two pushes in between which she broke the water. In the medical notes the hospital lied that my water was broken upon arrival. Philbin also performed a very disturbing “massage” on my vagina. She was rubbing my vagina for a very substantial period of time using up three bottles of oil and as though this rape was not enough after that she completed the “massage” by inserting her fingers in my rectum and rubbing there. I found this to be an extremely disturbing intervention.
I begged Philbin to stop the barbaric forced pushing on command so I can rest for some time but I was told I had to continue pushing otherwise we would not be having a baby for a while. At the time I assumed that she was rushing me because this was in my and my child’s best interest, however at the end of the delivery as Philbin was running to the door to go home as though she had diarrhea it suddenly hit me that her impatience had nothing to do with my and my child’s best interest. The midwife just wanted to be done with me and go home. We believe that she may have been intoxicated.
To illustrate the barbaric nature of the forced pushing my heartbeat per minute at one point in time was recorded at 202 beats per minute. Back then I was very athletic with excellent cardiovascular fitness and during the pushes it felt to me that I would enter cardiac arrest or have a stroke from the exertion. I have never exerted myself at this level in my life and all the while the midwife and hospital staff were looking at me as though I was not trying hard enough. It is not easy to tear apart your own body especially when you are in above average health. These body structures are so strong. (I am sure my child sustained trauma too. She is still too young to conduct a brain scan on her without sedation.) The next day I noticed burst blood vessels in my eyes from the effort I had exerted. It took monumental effort and cutting to push out the baby. When Philbin cut me the baby shot out with such tremendous force from the accumulated pressure from hours of forced pushing that my partner tells me she almost did not catch it. The cut extended into a huge laceration from the enormous pressure. I obtained the hospital notes prior to my complaint to the hospital so they did not feel the need to cover up the 202 beats per minute proving the level of my exertion. However, I requested my fetal monitor strips after I complained to them and the hospital doctored the fetal monitor strips by deleting my heartbeat, my contraction pattern and my child’s heart beat during the contractions during the last half an hour of the forced pushing to cover up the botched delivery. I did not know it was so easy to falsify hospital records. I did not know that hospitals defraud patients like this.
Nurse Ryan Kelsey Gavagni Fiorentino used a stethoscope towards the end of pushing to check on the status of the baby fully knowing that Philbin was trying to kill me. Ryan never bothered to initiate the chain of command. (Hospitals must have a protocol to ensure patient safety by initiating the chain of command in case of a dangerous provider, especially a provider like Philbin who has a documented history of seriously injuring patients. The Florida Department of Health has since issued a Letter of Concern for Philbin publicly available on its website.) Not only Ryan did not help me but she helped cover up the botched delivery. As Philbin delivered the placenta like a butcher Ryan helped her stem the bleeding. Instead of waiting for the placenta to deliver on its own Philbin just ripped it out. I felt it detach from the uterine wall as she yanked it. I was even threatened with a transfusion. Obviously, my birth plan for a physiological birth was not honored neither for the baby, nor for the placenta. Moreover, Philbin forcefully clamped the cord and ordered my partner to cut it while the placenta was still inside me! This is a very dangerous practice which produces hormonal injuries for life. If you have to forcefully clamp the cord obviously the cord is not ready for cutting. You have to wait out the cord to clamp on its own after both baby and placenta are delivered. Patience is key in physiological birth.
I contracted acute bacterial vaginosis and HPV infections from the hospital. I have never had these infections prior to this hospital stay. None of the staff were wearing masks as they were chattering in my grossly torn genitals. Philbin was stitching me with no anesthesia and I had to beg her to numb the area. My partner tells me that the thread she chose initially was not thick enough and would not hold the tissues so the nurses were sent out to bring in a thicker gauge of thread. She and the nurses were blabbering in the wound as she was incompetently stitching me layer upon layer of stitches with four rolls of thread while droplets from their mouths were infecting me with viruses and bacteria.
The midwife lied that I lost 400 ml of blood in the first 24 hours after the delivery. Yet my hematology report shows that I lost 28% of my red blood count in 24 hours. 400 ml of blood loss cannot drive the red blood count down by 28%. I asked the hospital about their methodology for calculating blood loss and I was told that the provider, in this case Philbin, estimates it visually. This hospital is shockingly incompetent. First of all, the blood loss represents the blood lost over the course of 24 hours after the delivery. Philbin was in the delivery room for only about 4 hours, which included harassment to start forced pushing on command, barbaric forced pushing on command, rape, breaking the water with no consent, barbaric forced delivery of the placenta, incompetent stitching and then Philbin sprinting to the door to go home. Philbin did not spend 24 hours with me to watch the blood loss after the delivery. Secondly, I sustained severe pelvic injuries which obviously bled internally into the abdominal cavity. I had pelvic MRIs three months after the delivery and there was still fluid in the abdominal cavity. I was still bleeding internally three months after the delivery. Even if it were for Philbin to watch over me for 24 hours to visually estimate the external blood loss she could not have possibly calculated visually the internal blood loss from the internal injuries caused by pushing before full dilation. The only way to estimate the blood loss with accuracy is by using hematology reports and IV inputs. Understandably, I was shocked speechless by the incompetence of this hospital. I also for the very first time in my life lost consciousness at this hospital. Nurse Ryan lied in the medical notes that I had reported feeling dizzy and I was helped to the ground. In reality, I completely lost consciousness and when I came to myself on the floor two nurses dragged me to the bed. I was kept in the hospital for three days and none of the nurses who by protocol have to check on the external bleeding bothered to do so despite of my complaining about it. I complained months later to the hospital that this is criminal behavior and I was told that that was just bad practice. After the botched delivery none of the nurses initiated the chain of command and instead the hospital started a disciplinary record for me for not being able to take proper care of the baby. I was staring the very real possibility of impending death in the face and these murderers chose to discipline me. The inhumanity of this is beyond striking. And then they sent me home to die. Miraculously, even to myself, I managed to survive to tell the story. Now every day is a struggle for me.
Good Samaritan Medical Center does not care for patient safety. I survived an attempt at my one and only precious life and the hospital never bothered to take any responsibility for the attempted murder. Not only that but they falsified the records to cover up what occurred. They went as far as to put restrictions on my access to the hospital by having two guards with me at all times while I was at the premises and told me to discuss issues with their lawyer who has not made herself available to me.
In casual conversations with two people from my neighborhood I learned that one patient at Good Samaritan Medical Center was similarly harassed to start pushing before it was time but she had the wherewithal to refuse, being a second time mother and knowing better. She waited for nature to take its course naturally and told me she would never go back or recommend Good Samaritan to anybody. She told me that the people working at Good Samaritan do not have the right temperament for the job. They neither had the patience nor cared about her. She had to force the harassing nurse out of her delivery room. I wish I had the knowledge I have now to have walked out of this hospital as soon as Philbin surprised me that I had to start pushing. My body was screaming at me “DO NOT PUSH!!!!!!!”, instead I trusted the professionals. These professionals have no integrity and did not care about me and wanted to murder me. Interestingly, in her hand written notes, Philbin wrote at 1:40 am “complete - instructed pt on pushing technique,” while in the typed hospital notes nurse Ryan wrote that I achieved full dilation at 3:00 am. (Complete means full dilation.) All of this is creative writing and fantastical nonsense. Apart from the obvious contradiction that I had achieved full dilation at two different times almost an hour and a half apart, the more shocking fact is that I was never even examined at any of these times for the dilation. In this hospital they tell you that you are ready as soon you step your foot there and want to be done with you immediately. They use all sorts of barbaric methods to speed up your labor for their convenience at your and your child’s expense. In my case it was excessively barbaric as we believe alcohol was also involved. In my other neighbor’s case the baby was injured. Good Samaritan broke the baby’s arms and a whole week later they realized the shoulder was also broken. In addition, a few days after my delivery Good Samaritan Medical Center murdered a second time mother with their unnatural delivery methods. She passed away from injuries very similar to mine.
A short example of the lack of morale, ethics and basic medical competency in this hospital is illustrated by my interaction with Melody Nina Hackett in the Labor and Delivery unit.
This individual told me that I should know better next time, implying that I was guilty for the hospital’s poor care. She claimed that a three point drop in hemoglobin over the course of 24 hours is not a big deal. She further told me that she had been a labor and delivery nurse for 30 years and she had never seen a first time mother push for less than an hour. This tells me that this individual is severely incompetent about physiological birth and the Ferguson reflex. Hackett was completely undisturbed by the fact that my medical records were falsified. It defies the imagination and it all makes me very sad that any hospital would employ such people.
The “healthcare professionals” entrusted to work at Good Samaritan Medical Center damaged the trust I need to have in the people who take care of me. They damaged my trust in mankind. That is an unforgivable crime.
The saddest fact is that if I never went to this hospital and instead delivered at home, in the car, or in the bushes in accordance with the laws of nature I would have had a very good birth experience and I would be healthy today. Now I am crippled for life because of the “help.”
I was severely injured and almost murdered in the Good Samaritan Medical Center Labor and Delivery unit. The hospital covered up the incident by falsifying the medical records.
I planned a physiological birth without interventions. Physiological birth implies getting in time to the hospital to labor down for a while there to get accustomed to the birthing environment to feel comfortable, safe and at home (the earlier you get there, the better), also labor must be allowed to proceed absolutely undisturbed unless there are complications. Physiological birth also implies that the cord must not be cut prior to the delivery of the placenta, thus not incurring hormonal injury, placental delivery issues, or a hemorrhage. Once this is accomplished you have to wait for the umbilical cord to clamp on its own and only then you cut it.
My birth plan was completely disregarded and as I would later learn not out of medical necessity. I was defrauded by the midwife (Kathleen Philbin) that I was fully dilated and that I had to be coached to push the baby. I would later learn from court depositions that Philbin is a proponent of coached pushing, she believes that her guidance is superior to that of your own body. She also states that an induction is the same as natural labor. In her deposition taken less than a year before I had the misfortune to employ her she claims to have participated in the delivery of over 1,500 babies. To me she claimed that she had delivered over 3,000. Reading the court documents I realized that Philbin’s only competency is to lead you confidently in the wrong direction, lie to you and steal your money. This individual knows less than me about birth and I am the patient. Moreover, she demanded that I pay for her “services” months prior to the delivery. I assume she knew that if she requested money after the so called “services” were rendered nobody would want to pay her.
My contraction pattern registered by the fetal monitor unequivocally shows that I was nowhere near full dilation and I had not yet reached transition at the time I was coerced to start pushing. In between pushes the midwife broke my water without permission. My contraction pattern also unequivocally shows the two pushes in between which she broke the water. In the medical notes the hospital lied that my water was broken upon arrival. Philbin also performed a very disturbing “massage” on my vagina. She was rubbing my vagina for a very substantial period of time using up three bottles of oil and as though this rape was not enough after that she completed the “massage” by inserting her fingers in my rectum and rubbing there. I found this to be an extremely disturbing intervention.
I begged Philbin to stop the barbaric forced pushing on command so I can rest for some time but I was told I had to continue pushing otherwise we would not be having a baby for a while. At the time I assumed that she was rushing me because this was in my and my child’s best interest, however at the end of the delivery as Philbin was running to the door to go home as though she had diarrhea it suddenly hit me that her impatience had nothing to do with my and my child’s best interest. The midwife just wanted to be done with me and go home. We believe that she may have been intoxicated.
To illustrate the barbaric nature of the forced pushing my heartbeat per minute at one point in time was recorded at 202 beats per minute. Back then I was very athletic with excellent cardiovascular fitness and during the pushes it felt to me that I would enter cardiac arrest or have a stroke from the exertion. I have never exerted myself at this level in my life and all the while the midwife and hospital staff were looking at me as though I was not trying hard enough. It is not easy to tear apart your own body especially when you are in above average health. These body structures are so strong. (I am sure my child sustained trauma too. She is still too young to conduct a brain scan on her without sedation.) The next day I noticed burst blood vessels in my eyes from the effort I had exerted. It took monumental effort and cutting to push out the baby. When Philbin cut me the baby shot out with such tremendous force from the accumulated pressure from hours of forced pushing that my partner tells me she almost did not catch it. The cut extended into a huge laceration from the enormous pressure. I obtained the hospital notes prior to my complaint to the hospital so they did not feel the need to cover up the 202 beats per minute proving the level of my exertion. However, I requested my fetal monitor strips after I complained to them and the hospital doctored the fetal monitor strips by deleting my heartbeat, my contraction pattern and my child’s heart beat during the contractions during the last half an hour of the forced pushing to cover up the botched delivery. I did not know it was so easy to falsify hospital records. I did not know that hospitals defraud patients like this.
Nurse Ryan Kelsey Gavagni Fiorentino used a stethoscope towards the end of pushing to check on the status of the baby fully knowing that Philbin was trying to kill me. Ryan never bothered to initiate the chain of command. (Hospitals must have a protocol to ensure patient safety by initiating the chain of command in case of a dangerous provider, especially a provider like Philbin who has a documented history of seriously injuring patients. The Florida Department of Health has since issued a Letter of Concern for Philbin publicly available on its website.) Not only Ryan did not help me but she helped cover up the botched delivery. As Philbin delivered the placenta like a butcher Ryan helped her stem the bleeding. Instead of waiting for the placenta to deliver on its own Philbin just ripped it out. I felt it detach from the uterine wall as she yanked it. I was even threatened with a transfusion. Obviously, my birth plan for a physiological birth was not honored neither for the baby, nor for the placenta. Moreover, Philbin forcefully clamped the cord and ordered my partner to cut it while the placenta was still inside me! This is a very dangerous practice which produces hormonal injuries for life. If you have to forcefully clamp the cord obviously the cord is not ready for cutting. You have to wait out the cord to clamp on its own after both baby and placenta are delivered. Patience is key in physiological birth.
I contracted acute bacterial vaginosis and HPV infections from the hospital. I have never had these infections prior to this hospital stay. None of the staff were wearing masks as they were chattering in my grossly torn genitals. Philbin was stitching me with no anesthesia and I had to beg her to numb the area. My partner tells me that the thread she chose initially was not thick enough and would not hold the tissues so the nurses were sent out to bring in a thicker gauge of thread. She and the nurses were blabbering in the wound as she was incompetently stitching me layer upon layer of stitches with four rolls of thread while droplets from their mouths were infecting me with viruses and bacteria.
The midwife lied that I lost 400 ml of blood in the first 24 hours after the delivery. Yet my hematology report shows that I lost 28% of my red blood count in 24 hours. 400 ml of blood loss cannot drive the red blood count down by 28%. I asked the hospital about their methodology for calculating blood loss and I was told that the provider, in this case Philbin, estimates it visually. This hospital is shockingly incompetent. First of all, the blood loss represents the blood lost over the course of 24 hours after the delivery. Philbin was in the delivery room for only about 4 hours, which included harassment to start forced pushing on command, barbaric forced pushing on command, rape, breaking the water with no consent, barbaric forced delivery of the placenta, incompetent stitching and then Philbin sprinting to the door to go home. Philbin did not spend 24 hours with me to watch the blood loss after the delivery. Secondly, I sustained severe pelvic injuries which obviously bled internally into the abdominal cavity. I had pelvic MRIs three months after the delivery and there was still fluid in the abdominal cavity. I was still bleeding internally three months after the delivery. Even if it were for Philbin to watch over me for 24 hours to visually estimate the external blood loss she could not have possibly calculated visually the internal blood loss from the internal injuries caused by pushing before full dilation. The only way to estimate the blood loss with accuracy is by using hematology reports and IV inputs. Understandably, I was shocked speechless by the incompetence of this hospital. I also for the very first time in my life lost consciousness at this hospital. Nurse Ryan lied in the medical notes that I had reported feeling dizzy and I was helped to the ground. In reality, I completely lost consciousness and when I came to myself on the floor two nurses dragged me to the bed. I was kept in the hospital for three days and none of the nurses who by protocol have to check on the external bleeding bothered to do so despite of my complaining about it. I complained months later to the hospital that this is criminal behavior and I was told that that was just bad practice. After the botched delivery none of the nurses initiated the chain of command and instead the hospital started a disciplinary record for me for not being able to take proper care of the baby. I was staring the very real possibility of impending death in the face and these murderers chose to discipline me. The inhumanity of this is beyond striking. And then they sent me home to die. Miraculously, even to myself, I managed to survive to tell the story. Now every day is a struggle for me.
Good Samaritan Medical Center does not care for patient safety. I survived an attempt at my one and only precious life and the hospital never bothered to take any responsibility for the attempted murder. Not only that but they falsified the records to cover up what occurred. They went as far as to put restrictions on my access to the hospital by having two guards with me at all times while I was at the premises and told me to discuss issues with their lawyer who has not made herself available to me.
In casual conversations with two people from my neighborhood I learned that one patient at Good Samaritan Medical Center was similarly harassed to start pushing before it was time but she had the wherewithal to refuse, being a second time mother and knowing better. She waited for nature to take its course naturally and told me she would never go back or recommend Good Samaritan to anybody. She told me that the people working at Good Samaritan do not have the right temperament for the job. They neither had the patience nor cared about her. She had to force the harassing nurse out of her delivery room. I wish I had the knowledge I have now to have walked out of this hospital as soon as Philbin surprised me that I had to start pushing. My body was screaming at me “DO NOT PUSH!!!!!!!”, instead I trusted the professionals. These professionals have no integrity and did not care about me and wanted to murder me. Interestingly, in her hand written notes, Philbin wrote at 1:40 am “complete - instructed pt on pushing technique,” while in the typed hospital notes nurse Ryan wrote that I achieved full dilation at 3:00 am. (Complete means full dilation.) All of this is creative writing and fantastical nonsense. Apart from the obvious contradiction that I had achieved full dilation at two different times almost an hour and a half apart, the more shocking fact is that I was never even examined at any of these times for the dilation. In this hospital they tell you that you are ready as soon you step your foot there and want to be done with you immediately. They use all sorts of barbaric methods to speed up your labor for their convenience at your and your child’s expense. In my case it was excessively barbaric as we believe alcohol was also involved. In my other neighbor’s case the baby was injured. Good Samaritan broke the baby’s arms and a whole week later they realized the shoulder was also broken. In addition, a few days after my delivery Good Samaritan Medical Center murdered a second time mother with their unnatural delivery methods. She passed away from injuries very similar to mine.
A short example of the lack of morale, ethics and basic medical competency in this hospital is illustrated by my interaction with Melody Nina Hackett in the Labor and Delivery unit.
This individual told me that I should know better next time, implying that I was guilty for the hospital’s poor care. She claimed that a three point drop in hemoglobin over the course of 24 hours is not a big deal. She further told me that she had been a labor and delivery nurse for 30 years and she had never seen a first time mother push for less than an hour. This tells me that this individual is severely incompetent about physiological birth and the Ferguson reflex. Hackett was completely undisturbed by the fact that my medical records were falsified. It defies the imagination and it all makes me very sad that any hospital would employ such people.
The “healthcare professionals” entrusted to work at Good Samaritan Medical Center damaged the trust I need to have in the people who take care of me. They damaged my trust in mankind. That is an unforgivable crime.
A short example of the lack of morale, ethics and basic medical competency in this hospital is illustrated by my interaction with Melody Nina Hackett in the Labor and Delivery unit.
This individual told me that I should know better next time, implying that I was guilty for the hospital’s poor care. She claimed that a three point drop in hemoglobin over the course of 24 hours is not a big deal. She further told me that she had been a labor and delivery nurse for 30 years and she had never seen a first time mother push for less than an hour. This tells me that this individual is severely incompetent about physiological birth and the Ferguson reflex. Hackett was completely undisturbed by the fact that my medical records were falsified. It defies the imagination and it all makes me very sad that any hospital would employ such people.
The “healthcare professionals” entrusted to work at Good Samaritan Medical Center damaged the trust I need to have in the people who take care of me. They damaged my trust in mankind. That is an unforgivable crime.
The saddest fact is that if I never went to this hospital and instead delivered at home, in the car, or in the bushes in accordance with the laws of nature I would have had a very good birth experience and I would be healthy today. Now I am crippled for life because of the “help.”
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