Four nurses at Emory Hospital posted about pregnant patients annoying them. Now other people who sought care there recall being dismissed and neglected.
Instagram user @nicoleknightjustice left a comment on Emory Healthcare’s post sharing “the most neglectful and egregious birthing experience” at the hospital 18 months ago. According to her comment, when she brought the nurse’s behavior to the hospital’s attention, she was “given a letter that gave a completely false retelling of my experience.” She went on:
What this showed me then and shows me now is that my experience wasn’t “just” a couple of bad apples. This is a culture that has been allowed to continue, unchecked. No one films themselves saying such disheartening and insensitive things and being annoyed by the needs of patients without that being common practice.Women have been sharing stories about their traumatic birthing experiences at Emory long before the nurses’ “ick” TikTok, but it seems their experiences largely went ignored.
These testimonies suggest that not only are individual nurses treating pregnant people with cruel neglect, but that the hospital as a whole has cultivated a culture that normalizes this treatment. These stories—many of which come from Black women in a state that has the in the country—reveal how hospitals are consistently violating pregnant people’s agency over their bodies and putting their lives in danger.While some of the complaints that the nurses recounted in the original TikTok are pretty trivial, their video reflects how little empathy they show for those in their care. In the wake of these stories, Black women on Twitter are encouraging pregnant people to
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