Someone posted a comment saying that if there was a link to her disciplinary actions, that it would be more believable. Unfortunately, with regards to the Medical Board of California, the process to official disciplinary action is very slow. At this stage of the process, when the complaints are coming in to their office and starting to be investigated, there is no public record of those 'goings ons'. If the complaints are investigated and determined to be causing harm to the general public, then the Board will decide to do a formal Accusation with the Attorney General. Only then will they issue an Interim Order of Suspension (removing her ability to practice), if they are ready to file official accusations. THEN it will go onto public record and move into the disciplinary action stage.
The goal of this blog is to bring more people forward (because I know they are out there) who have had unsavory experiences with her. Not because they didn't like her, but because they felt and experienced her incompetency personally through the births that she mismanaged. Because its not my business to say, I am allowing others to leave comments so that those out in the public will know personal accounts of those who have used her. I hope that those persons can get the courage to file a formal complaint. Only when enough come in will they put a fire under the Board's backside and get them moving on it. I personally don't want to hear any more stories of damaged moms or babies because of her.
PS The person who initiated this post - I want to say - the reason she isn't listed on the nursing boards site is because she is NOT a Certified Nurse Midwife. She is a licensed midwife. NOT a nurse in any capacity. CNMs have slightly different scopes of practice and are usually given hospital priveledges. LMs do not usually get hospital priviledges.
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It would be so helpful to see some real statistics of "damaged moms and babies" because of Paula.
Unfortunately, that kind of information is not readily available. If it were, i would be posting it here so the truth could be known. If the facts of the cases being investigated were available I would post those too. However, it is not available to the general public, hence why I created this blog so those who were unhappy would have a place to be acknowledged.
Again, I am glad that she has had some clients who have had (luckily) easy births or good birth experiences with Paula. I'm glad there are those of you willing to stand up for her. But the fact remains that she has misrepresented herself to people before and has not proven her knowledge of life-saving skills in a true emergency situation.
I challenge Paula to ask those families (she knows who they are) that have recently had bad outcomes to come forward with their stories. If she is so confident in her skills, then lets ask those families that had to have surgery to repair what she couldn't if they would recommend her or request her again. Lets ask the families who almost lost a child to come forward and see if they feel her skills are up to par. My guess is that she can't and won't do it. Because she will want to cover up the negative and make light of it to those who are uneducated enough about birth not to know the truth and take her at her word. I don't want to offend anyone, but I will just say that some people are so practiced at telling a lie that no one would ever know. But those of us that do, we are only scared for those people that don't know.
I understand that you're deeply concerned, and I actually commend you for that concern. I will be asking Paula about these allegations.
Thank you. I hope that I'm wrong. Because I'd rather be wrong in this case than be right.
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