A doctor decapitated a woman's baby during a "nightmare" delivery in Georgia, a legal case has claimed.
Dr Tracey St Julian is being sued for gross negligence by Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor, whose son died at Southern Regional Hospital during a complicated birth.
Several nurses are also being sued for concealing the incident.
Their lawyers claimed Dr St Julian had been too forceful with the baby during the delivery.
It seems like indecision and delay by the doctor and staff may have led to this.
It has to be one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever heard of. I first heard about it on the radio in the car. It totally freaked me out.
The doctor is very experienced, so l can't understand why this happened. Totally sickening!
Capitalism in California - https://www.propublica.org/article/los-angeles-orders-residential-hotels-to-stop-renting-to-tourists
Hey, Noll... how is capitalism working in the rest of the world? This is how it's swung around in California.
Fucking hubris and greed sickens most people. Except for those who are trying to squeeze every last dime from those who cannot afford to pay.
Let's vote for Republicans!!! They can fix it.
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Capitalism in California - https://www.propublica.org/article/los-angeles-orders-residential-hotels-to-stop-renting-to-tourists
Hey, Noll... how is capitalism working in the rest of the world? This is how it's swung around in California.
Fucking hubris and greed sickens most people. Except for those who are trying to squeeze every last dime from those who cannot afford to pay.
Let's vote for Republicans!!! They can fix it.
Capitalism is capitalism. It sucks everywhere it's not kept in check. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but we have a major housing crisis here in the Netherlands. And right wing politics are in large part to blame for that. And guess what kind of coalition will govern, after the general election last month? 🙄
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
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Capitalism in California - https://www.propublica.org/article/los-angeles-orders-residential-hotels-to-stop-renting-to-tourists
Hey, Noll... how is capitalism working in the rest of the world? This is how it's swung around in California.
Fucking hubris and greed sickens most people. Except for those who are trying to squeeze every last dime from those who cannot afford to pay.
Let's vote for Republicans!!! They can fix it.
So the city and county are unwilling to fund building low rent public housing, but willing to collect tax money even under dubious reasoning. And force motel owners with their property investments to deal with masses of drug addicts and alcoholics.
That is fundamentally fascist.
Yet, the root of the problem will continue to thrive.
Listen, thanks for this brain horror to keep me awake. Could have gone without that.
But further question, how did this thread shift from a fucked up birthing story to the LA housing crisis and responses? I feel like a bunch of posts were deleted. How did you get here?
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Listen, thanks for this brain horror to keep me awake. Could have gone without that.
But further question, how did this thread shift from a fucked up birthing story to the LA housing crisis and responses? I feel like a bunch of posts were deleted. How did you get here?
The thread is Jeebus Fucking Keriste. The initial post brought attention to the horrible birthing experience, the next post referred to a housing crisis in LA...the next post can be anything outrageous which might elicit a gasp of - OHYMYFUCKINGGAWD -or- JeebusFuckingKeriste - whichever string of adjectives you prefer to present to the rest of us - some situation, past, present or peering down the road at the inevitable fuckeduppedness about to unveil itself.
Do we need an OMG font too?
Well on the point of your hotel article then, it was needed. I moved away from LA after a decade living there. It was already an expensive city before landlords and developers started buying up any affordable housing and increasing the cost of living by almost double over the past 15 years.
These laws are designed to curb the homeless population and actually make the city livable. The infrastructure is already collapsing the the city debts are huge (won’t even get into the fact that the police has created billions of dollars of legal debt that comes out of the general fund for social programs). There is a human rights crisis on the streets of LA and more and more people were become homeless. Many have jobs. I saw a guy emerge from his tent next to my apartment who came out in a full suit and biked a few blocks to work. He just couldn’t find affordable rent on an interns salary.
Free market capitalism is destroying the city and that’s precisely why we needed laws like this to create affordable housing.
Met a young woman who had autism, ptsd, DID, and who’s brain was too scrambled to hold a job. She also suffered from seizures and desperately needed a roof over her head. She crashed with us for a few months while we helped fight for her getting public housing. Her case was marked as top priority for three years before she got a single room living space. Policy needs to be dictated by the needs of the poor, not padding the pockets of the rich.
Does the state of California have state mental hospitals and permanent care homes for the mentally ill? Offering that with professional care would makes sense and be humane. But forcing privately owned low end motels to do that is highly irresponsible, inhumane, and totally copping out on how to deal with homelessness.
The motel owners should shut down and sell the property to developers.
The state and cities should do their job and take care of the indignant mentally ill homeless, and drug addicts/alcoholics. Deal with those people in a caring professional manner, so they get real help.
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Does the state of California have state mental hospitals and permanent care homes for the mentally ill? Offering that with professional care would makes sense and be humane. But forcing privately owned low end motels to do that is highly irresponsible, inhumane, and totally copping out on how to deal with homelessness.
The motel owners should shut down and sell the property to developers.
The state and cities should do their job and take care of the indignant mentally ill homeless, and drug addicts/alcoholics. Deal with those people in a caring professional manner, so they get real help.
Allow me to answer those questions with first hand accounts; The wait list for a top priority individuals (homeless mothers with kids, physical disabilities, ect…) is somewhere between 2-5 years depending on how hard your case worker will pursue it. The mental hospitals are understaffed, churn people out in a week or two, and offer no long term care besides prescription meds which likely do nothing but mask symptoms.
Then you have the staffing issues. The state mental health centers are competing for a tiny pool of nurses and doctors with private businesses. Degrees are prohibitively expensive and the jobs pay dick. Hours are long and hard. There are no qualified staff to run these places.
The other problem is too much land and power is made available to developers. Example would be a few blocks from where I lived in LA was a proposed site of an unhoused shelter. It was a 15 floor abandoned apartment building that had not been occupied in years. The local developers and business owners were worried it would lower their property value and turned the ordeal into a 4 year long legal battle and the project was abandoned. So tens of millions of dollars earmarked for unhoused aid went to lawyers instead and a handful of wealthy assholes canceled a much needed shelter.
Corporations buy up all the land and make it prohibitively expensive to run a non-profit service like housing for those in need. Aggressive government action is needed to get people the help they need and personally that’s way more important that some real estate corporation’s bottom line. The hotels took these deals during Covid and are now trying to backpedal. Screw em’. Took the money to house the unhoused when they needed it, now they want them out so they can increase prices beyond what was contracted with the cities.
If the state has problems staffing and funding mental homes, then the state should have a budget fix. Rearrange their tax expenditures to take care of those needs.
But for sure, expecting privately owned cheap hotels to do the job for the state for homeless mentally ill and drug addicted people is moronic on an epic level. Anyone with common sense can see that? That entire neighborhood will soon be a slum.
The state should buy those properties, renovate them to their needs, and run the housing with professional staff educated to deal with the needs of the homeless, with profesional counselors and medical staff.
If corporations buy land, that means more tax revenue for the state. Unless the politicians are giving them special tax breaks.
Look to see how the state is allocating funds. You'll probably find that it is done to financially benefit politicians. Follow the money trail and you will find greedy corrupt politicians for every greedy developer.
But by all means, keep re-electing those crooks and learn to expect the same old shit.
The voters of LA passed a billion dollar bill dedicated to help the homeless a few years ago. One of the projects was the shelter I mentioned. The main issue preventing help from being distributed is how a tiny group of landowners can tie up progress for decades in the court.
One of the issues you are missing is how you separate politicians from landowners and corporations. They are the same people, literally. In order to get elected in LA the political campaign will take millions of dollars. Easily funded by the rich, tremendously hard for the poor. There are no debates to toon into, only the papers. All the major papers in LA are owned by…. You guessed it, the same rich people who own the land and politicians. And you need to spread that fight across many districts.
Like I said, the people circumvented th e city council by rallying for a bill that directly funded the homeless. The city council which is tremendously hard to unseat controls the zoning laws and approval processes that can be manipulated to prevent what the people directly voted for and funded.
The system is stacked against the most vulnerable and poor. It requires time and money that common people just don’t have. It requires coordination and media backing which the people lack. The system isn’t broken, it’s working as it was always intended to.
Private citizens can volunteer and start homeless shelters and feeding ministries. as well as counseling help.
You can really find out what your city and community is like through that. I am sure there are some already serving. Those tend to do more good than government run programs anyhow.
As long as there is massive drug and alcohol abuse, we will have a lot of addicts incapable of living normal lives and living on the streets, under bridges, in parks, vacant buildings, etc. Stop the source and you can pretty much solve the problem.
The mentally ill have been on the streets en masses since the early 1980s when the federal government and most states closed down public funded mental facilities.
While I don't disagree that more needs to be done to help the mentally ill and drug addicted, I also wonder if the focus on housing is in fact a response to the discomfort of witnessing them in public. If we could just collect all the 'crazy' together in one place and hide them away in some institution, that's problem solved, right? Out of sight, out of mind. We're going to have to think much bigger if we want to seriously address mental health and addiction.
Don't believe everything that you read.
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The thread is Jeebus Fucking Keriste. The initial post brought attention to the horrible birthing experience, the next post referred to a housing crisis in LA...the next post can be anything outrageous which might elicit a gasp of - OHYMYFUCKINGGAWD -or- JeebusFuckingKeriste - whichever string of adjectives you prefer to present to the rest of us - some situation, past, present or peering down the road at the inevitable fuckeduppedness about to unveil itself.
Do we need an OMG font too?
Maybe you should rename the thread "Whatever WellMadeMale is upset about this month." It would help to clarify the topic of the thread. Or... new topic, new thread.
Don't believe everything that you read.
Just posting this link as a positive example to help the homeless. A great model to mimic in other cities. I know the people who started/initially funded this project. The Arthur Hotel is one of few that focuses on not just helping the homeless get through the day, but change their circumstances in the near future.
