Via Femonomics, we find a really disturbing post from Dr. Erik Fleischman, an American doctor practicing in Tanzania who brags about participating in an involuntary sterilization, calling the doctor who performed the procedure a “hero.” After a pregnant patient’s heart stops beating on the operating table during a C-section (because they screwed up the epidural and then didn’t monitor her vital signs), Dr. Erik performs rib-cracking CPR, and his partner doctor ties the patient’s tubes:
...“How’s she doing down there, Daktari?” I asked.
“Fine. I am tying her tubes. I think she does not need another baby after this.” Dr. M was a cool character. I was wondering if she was going to survive the next five minutes and he was already doing family planning.
They don’t inform her of the fact that she almost died in surgery, that she might have a serious chest injury, and that they sterilized her. There’s not much else to say other than “holy shit” — until in the comments, Dr. Erik refers to the doctor who involuntarily sterilized his patient as a “hero.”
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/12/04/dr-erik-fleischman-and-involuntary-sterilization/
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