Episode 36: Denied While Dilating

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🎙️ Hosts: Shannen & Nyleen

This episode is one of the most infuriating we’ve ever produced —
not because these stories are rare, but because they’re happening everywhere.

👩🏾‍🍼 Two Black mothers.
🏥 Two different hospitals.
⚠️ One devastating pattern: their pain dismissed, their labor ignored, and their safety treated as optional.

This wasn’t “unexpected progression.”
 This was neglect.

🔍 Inside the Episode:

📜 EMTALA 101: What federal law actually requires when a laboring patient comes to the ED
🚨 Compliance Red Flags: Triage failures, premature discharges, and catastrophic judgement calls
⚖️ Bias in Real Time: How racial disparities in maternal outcomes show up in moments like these
📝 Peer Review Essentials: What incident reporting and root cause analysis should look like
🛡️ Frontline Guidance: Practical tips for patients, clinicians, and MSPs

These aren’t sensational stories.
 They’re symptoms of a system that still does not take Black women’s pain seriously.

🎧 Listen to Episode 36: Denied While Dilating

Because when two women in one week give birth in places they were never supposed to…
 the problem isn’t them — it’s us.

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