Wednesday 3 August 2011

Woman Halina Jane Gillett Sues Doc Over Her Own Birth

We just love to sue, don’t we?

The Huffington Post

25-year-old woman is suing the doctor who delivered her when she was a baby, saying she would not have medical difficulties from erb's palsy today if he had just conducted a caesarean birth like her mother requested, according to news reports.

Halina Jane Gillett was born in 1985 in a hospital in Newcastle, Australia. Her mother, Marilyn Benson-Inglis, requested a C-section from her obstetrician Professor Jeffrey Robinson because the pregnancy was "much bigger" than her previous three pregnancies, Australia's The Telegraph reported.

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