"Help was denied"
Misdiagnosis after delivery: Woman sues hospital
Are women with birth injuries taken seriously and given good medical care? Many of those affected would say no. Melanie R. is one of them - she suffered agony after an undetected third-degree perineal tear and, because she wasn't helped, ended up going to court.
"I only sued because I was denied help for years," Melanie R. clarifies right at the beginning of the interview with Krone+. "And I hope that this article will improve things for all women who go through similar things to me." Her ordeal began with the birth of her third child, when she was already 43 years old - a third-degree perineal tear was misdiagnosed as first-degree in hospital. "A small tear in the mucous membrane was documented and I was stitched up three times with ice," she recalls.
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