Two North Carolina doctors have been reprimanded for performing a caesarian on a woman, only to discover she wasn’t pregnant at all.
The incident — a rare case of pseudocyesis or a false or hysterical pregnancy — happened at the Cape Fear Medical Center in Fayetteville, N.C.
The woman reportedly appeared at the hospital with her husband asking for a C-section. A resident in charge made the pregnancy diagnosis and doctors agreed to surgery after trying to induce labor for two days.
Neither doctor independently confirmed the pregnancy.
In January, after studying the case for more than a year, the North Carolina Medical Board sent “letters of concern,” the lowest level of discipline, to Dr. Gerianne Geszler, who was the on-call physician, and Dr. Dorrette Grant, who performed the caesarian in 2008.
This would not have happened if we had health care reform back in 2008
LOL true, it would have taken six weeks to get her into the hospital, by which time it would have resolved itself.
It's a good thing she wasn't diagnosed with a brain tumor.