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    Default Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

    My question involves malpractice in the state of: Georgia.......I need to know if they can give a newborn baby methadone when you tell them not to...Also they tested my baby for drugs and she was clean but said she had NAS.....So they said she would have to be medicated and told me a list of medicine including methadone and three other drugs.....I asked them not to give her methadone and they went behind me anyway....also the methadone they gave her made her oxygen levels drop and they had to blow in her mouth till the cardiovascular doctor arrived.....they treated us like drug addicts and would not let us see her unsupervised until our drug tests came back clean then they acted like nothing ever happened

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    My question involves malpractice in the state of: Georgia.......I need to know if they can give a newborn baby methadone when you tell them not to...Also they tested my baby for drugs and she was clean but said she had NAS.....So they said she would have to be medicated and told me a list of medicine including methadone and three other drugs.....I asked them not to give her methadone and they went behind me anyway....also the methadone they gave her made her oxygen levels drop and they had to blow in her mouth till the cardiovascular doctor arrived.....they treated us like drug addicts and would not let us see her unsupervised until our drug tests came back clean then they acted like nothing ever happened
    Did you use drug while you were pregnant ? Are you on Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?

    You can talk to an attorney. But, there is nothing you can do about the doctors treating your baby. Or the way they treated you.

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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

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    I think NAS can occur even if moms drug test appears clean
    You nay be right. If I remember correctly the drugs do not clear the unborn child's system the way it does the mothers.

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    The issues are bit different in treating your child than in treating you. You have the right, unless you are incompetent, to refuse any treatment and the medical staff must honor that. But here you were not making a healthcare decision for yourself; you were making it for your child. While in most circumstances medical personnel should defer to the wishes of the parents in refusing treatment, if in an emergency situation the medical professional concludes that without immediate treatment grave harm or death may result to the child he or she may provide that treatment since there will be no time to argue the matter in court before such treatment is provided.

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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

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    Your statement suggests one of two possibilities: First, that your wife is in recovery for opiate addiction and she was being maintained on methadone for the course of her pregnancy; or, second, that your wife was on other opiates for a pain condition and was transitioned to methadone for her pregnancy due to concerns for the possible complications that her former medications might create for her pregnancy.

    Either way, if she was being prescribed methadone, she should have been taking her methadone. Cessation during pregnancy poses harm to the fetus. More than that, if she was being prescribed methadone and was not taking that medication, why didn't she tell her doctors that she was ceasing her use of methadone? What was she doing with the methadone she was receiving from her doctors, if not taking it?

    If there's another explanation, please share it.
    She was not on methadone at all during her pregnancy not even pain killers....she was however a meth user 5 years ago and the doctor told us yesterday that he gave the baby methadone because he assumed that she was on it and gave it to our baby....he looked at her past records to see that...

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    Your statement suggests one of two possibilities: First, that your wife is in recovery for opiate addiction and she was being maintained on methadone for the course of her pregnancy; or, second, that your wife was on other opiates for a pain condition and was transitioned to methadone for her pregnancy due to concerns for the possible complications that her former medications might create for her pregnancy.

    Either way, if she was being prescribed methadone, she should have been taking her methadone. Cessation during pregnancy poses harm to the fetus. More than that, if she was being prescribed methadone and was not taking that medication, why didn't she tell her doctors that she was ceasing her use of methadone? What was she doing with the methadone she was receiving from her doctors, if not taking it?

    If there's another explanation, please share it.
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    You nay be right. If I remember correctly the drugs do not clear the unborn child's system the way it does the mothers.
    Baby's drug test was clean also

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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

    What damages has the baby suffered because of the methadone?

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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

    Neither me or my wife are on drugs I am in the United states army and have been for 8 years they gave her methadone because of my wife's past and they told us that also and yes we are taking them to court because none of us had anything in our system including the my baby and they almostold killed her with it

    No we are not on that at all and the doctor just assumed that my wife was and put our baby on that stuff and almost killed our baby with it

    The only symptoms she was having was when unswaddled her to change her diaper she shivered because it was cold and that was it nothing else to go on other then that she didn't cry she fussed alittle when she was hungry but that was all so it wasn't an emergency at all she was fine till they gave her methadone
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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

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    Neither me or my wife are on drugs I am in the United states army and have been for 8 years they gave her methadone because of my wife's past and they told us that also and yes we are taking them to court because none of us had anything in our system including the my baby and they almostold killed her with it

    No we are not on that at all and the doctor just assumed that my wife was and put our baby on that stuff and almost killed our baby with it

    The only symptoms she was having was when unswaddled her to change her diaper she shivered because it was cold and that was it nothing else to go on other then that she didn't cry she fussed alittle when she was hungry but that was all so it wasn't an emergency at all she was fine till they gave her methadone
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    If you have an attorney, why are you asking questions here ?

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    Neither me or my wife are on drugs I am in the United states army and have been for 8 years they gave her methadone because of my wife's past and they told us that also and yes we are taking them to court because none of us had anything in our system including the my baby and they almostold killed her with it.
    Understand something very important here. Even if there was malpractice (and there are not enough facts in your post to make that determination) all you may sue for is the actual damages your child suffered from the harm. You cannot win anything for what MIGHT have happened. So the fact (if true) that your daughter MIGHT have died gets you nothing. What actual harm was suffered? Did your daughter suffer any permanent injury/disability from it? Did you have to pay extra medical bills from this that you would not otherwise have had to pay if the alleged malpractice did not occur? If the episode, as severe as it was, was temporary and your daughter suffered no permanent harm then all you are left to pursue is whatever extra medical costs you had out of this. If your military health benefits or other health insurance paid for it all then there may be nothing worth suing for.

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    Neither me or my wife are on drugs... they gave her methadone because of my wife's past....
    Your statement suggests one of two possibilities: First, that your wife is in recovery for opiate addiction and she was being maintained on methadone for the course of her pregnancy; or, second, that your wife was on other opiates for a pain condition and was transitioned to methadone for her pregnancy due to concerns for the possible complications that her former medications might create for her pregnancy.

    Either way, if she was being prescribed methadone, she should have been taking her methadone. Cessation during pregnancy poses harm to the fetus. More than that, if she was being prescribed methadone and was not taking that medication, why didn't she tell her doctors that she was ceasing her use of methadone? What was she doing with the methadone she was receiving from her doctors, if not taking it?

    If there's another explanation, please share it.

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