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| - Dr. Steven Nelson never had much time when my wife and I met with him. He was my wife's doctor for our first pregnancy and we had lots of questions. Appointments lasted 3-7 minutes. At one, I brought a notebook with several questions written out. As I went through the questions, Dr. Nelson gave answers such as, "Google that ... doesn't matter... Google that ... Don't worry about it... Google that one... etc." He had no interest in giving us information.
We had a difficult labor/birthing process. My wife's water broke before any pre-labor or contractions or anything. We were already 6 days late, and figured the baby was on the way, so we went to the hospital. The hospital gave us a 24-hour deadline to deliver the baby because of risk of infection. So we went through different stages of induction, and none of them worked, and Dr. Nelson was not present for anything. He spoke to my wife once on the phone to scold her for not being induced days earlier, which was something he had mentioned as an option. He said on the phone she would probably have to have a C-section because she didn't listen to him. This was very frustrating because we actually did want to listen to him and get advice from him, but he never gave us any instructions, and when we were at the hospital he wasn't there, so we went along with the recommendations of the nurses. I feel his attitude toward my laboring wife was completely inappropriate.
36 hours after the water breaking, Dr. Nelson said he would come in during his lunch in a couple hours to do a C-section. We asked if he could come in sooner. Since the C-section seemed inevitable, we just wanted to get it over with. Was he upset that we wanted him to come before his lunch?
During labor, my wife's epidural did not work; she still felt the pain of contractions. This was concerning as she was about to have major abdominal surgery, so we expressed concerns. The staff assured us she would be numb before surgery. The anesthesiologist gave my wife a "spinal" since the epidural wasn't working. Unfortunately, this only worked halfway. They did this test where they poked the location of the incision with a needle to see if my wife was numb. She was not numb on her left side. They asked, "Are you sure you feel sharp pain, and not just pressure." "Yes, I feel the sharp pain." Their solution to my wife's numbness was to use local anesthetic, which numbed only the surface of my wife's skin, and Dr. Nelson did the incision. As the other parts of the surgery progressed, my wife was pleading with the staff to stop because she could feel the pain of the surgery. I don't know why Dr. Nelson did surgery on my wife when she wasn't numb. I've heard from a couple other doctors that they would never perform surgery on a patient who wasn't numb. They said to me, "I don't know what he was thinking." He continued with the surgery while my wife pleaded and cried, and once he got my daughter out, he gave some signal to the anesthesiologist who pumped her with something to knock her out.
On top of all of this, my daughter almost died. I doubt this was Dr. Nelson's fault, but her first "breath" resulted in her completely blocking her airway with mucus or something. Staff had to work on her for a while before she was breathing on her own. It was traumatic.
After surgery, my wife had a horrible recovery. She could hardly move or walk for a couple of days without a lot of pain, and she experienced moderate pain and difficulty for weeks. My wife's second delivery also resulted in a C-section, but the recovery was way faster and better. Every decision Dr. Nelson made resulted in more pain for my wife. The way he handled her organs and uterus; the way he performed surgery on my wife who wasn't numb, and the way he had a student or intern stitch her up all caused my wife a lot more pain compared to the second time with a much better doctor, Doctor Grayson Guzman. It was as if Dr. Nelson was taking out his anger on my wife.
I suspect Dr. Nelson resented my wife and shared frustrations with his colleague, Dr. Erin O'Sullivan, since she also scolded my wife. At 4 or 5 am on the first night of our stay at the hospital, there was this knock on the door, and Dr. O'Sullivan came in and turned on the lights. We were both in a daze and had no idea who this woman was, but she introduced herself and proceeded to tell us off. "Hi. I'm Dr. O'Sullivan and I work with Dr. Nelson, and just can't believe that you wouldn't take Dr. Nelson's advice. He has a great C-section rate, and you're ruining it because you wouldn't listen to his instructions. It's your fault you had a C-section and I don't think it's right that it's going to reflect badly on him. " She said something along those lines and left. Her only intention for coming into our room was to spite my wife. I don't think I've ever experienced anything as rude or unprofessional as the actions of Dr. O'Sullivan that night. It was awful.
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