About this episode

Lauren Paladini shares her harrowing experience with medical malpractice and the fight for acknowledgment and care from the military.

Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A C-section goes wrong, the truth stays buried, and a young soldier spends seven years fighting for the words that should have come on day one: we made a mistake, and we’re going to take care of you. We sit down again with Lauren Paladini, whose delivery at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg ended with a severed vessel connected to her right uterine artery, repeated hemorrhaging, emergency civilian surgeries, and a hyste...

People in this episode

Host: Theresa Carpenter

Guest: Lauren Paladini

Topics covered

• medical malpractice
• military service
• personal struggle
• healthcare
• patient advocacy

Keywords

• C-section
• medical error
• Fort Bragg
• military healthcare
• patient rights
• advocacy
• emergency surgery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Womack Army Medical Center

Places: Fort Bragg

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