Comments on: Godbag medical professional inflicts views on unsuspecting patient, with hilarious results!

By: the baboon

the baboon — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:54:42 +0000

Oh, Michelle. Can we dwell for a little while on the intriguing beauty of our Better-Half-in-Chief?

I half-remember a post you wrote about Germaine Greer, was it? Someone on the Turner Movie Network thing when you were sick, and although the woman in question was in a ridiculous movie, you loved her. That’s how I feel.

By: Anna Belle

Anna Belle — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:24:10 +0000

The whole office ought to be reported for not reporting these “incidents” as they happen. Olono should lose her license and be sued out of any accumulated wealth she has built up or may build up in the future.

Oh, and I call patriarchal handmaidens “vaginabots.”

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:25:18 +0000

I am insured through my job and have been using PP for the past three or four years for the full range of their services. I’ve never had a problem with them, for what that’s worth.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:50:31 +0000

Good point, thebewilderness. I’m hoping this mess gets followed by the relevant media because I really really want to know more.

By: thebewilderness

thebewilderness — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:11:45 +0000

We only have the perps word for her coworkers attitude toward her criminal enterprise. If she thinks that an IUD is abortion, and that assaulting patients is good and right, I wouldn’t be surprised if she were wrong about a few other things as well.

By: Hollywood Marie

Hollywood Marie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:30:03 +0000

I know this is kind of graphic, but I wonder if the “nurse” was putting things into patients instead of pulling them out this would be taken more seriously by her coworkers. Maybe from there we can make that connection to them about how awful her actions were. Or not. Either way, I’m in for the lawsuit.

By: Rozasharn

Rozasharn — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:17:24 +0000

I’m sad to hear that some Planned Parenthood branches are turning away insured patients. I’ve always gone to Planned Parenthood for gynecological stuff precisely because they are The Only People I Trust To Protect My Privacy.

By: Michael-C

Michael-C — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:06:55 +0000

While I never cease to be amazed/shocked/disappointed by the kind of behavior attributed to — and acknowledged — by this Nurse Practitioner, I am even more outraged to read that (1) she was not disciplined for this recent violation of a patient and (2) she has done this same sort of outrageous thing previously on multiple occasions and her co-workers and supervisors have not acted in the interests of the patients who were wronged. These acts show total disregard for the person who trusts representatives of the medical community to help manage one’s health. Someone — and probably multiple someones — need to be prosecuted here.

By: zooeyibz

zooeyibz — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:38:37 +0000

Ironically, in Britain, I had to cajole the doctor to remove my IUD (after 8 years). The blessed thing about nationalised health care is they care a damn sight more about keeping costs down than about enforced pregnancy. IUDs are cheaper than ante-natal care, delivery and pediatrics so they are hella keen for women of childbearing age to keep them in. Which I appreciate, but coercion is still coercion.

It’d be great to have a health care system where women’s choices are respected, as opposed to being manipulated to suit the prevailing socio-economic or religious interests of the local branch of the patriarchy.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:21:43 +0000

Ouch! my cervix!

Ouch! my brain!

So depressing.