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Woman accuses doctor of making painful labor worse
Chicago Tribune, December 18, 2008
A physician is being sued for making a woman's labor pain worse after he berated her throughout the delivery at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. He was filling in for another doctor and chastised her for "not calling ahead" and told her it was too late for pain medication, acccording to a civil suit filed in Cook County, IL, courts.
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