Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Medical Misadventure or Manslaughter
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🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor are filled with joy at the prospect of welcoming their newborn into the world.
Tragically, their world is turned upside down when what should have been a routine childbirth becomes a horrifying series of events that end in the loss of their baby. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unravel the deeply disturbing story of a young couple who were denied the chance to bond with their deceased child. They explore the complex layers of emotion, science, and legality surrounding the case.
From a shocking refusal to permit an autopsy, to startling revelations of the baby's decapitation, the hosts scrutinize every angle. They underscore the necessity for trust between medical professionals and patients, particularly when the stakes are this high.
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Time-coded Highlights:
00:00:20 — Joseph Scott Morgan delves into the human need for tactile confirmation during grief, emphasizing the irreplaceable role touch plays in coping with a loved one's death.
00:02:40 — Dave Mack begins the narration of Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor's story, and describes the complications that arose during the delivery.
00:05:00 — The condition called “shoulder dystocia” is explained by Joe Scott.
00:08:11 — A distinction between stillbirth and sudden infant death is made by Morgan.
00:10:42 — Morgan addresses the perilous state of the mother during childbirth, pondering on medical errors that can tip the scale from life to death.
00:11:46 — A conversation around the shocking force needed to fracture an infant’s bones brings listeners to a grim realization about the case.
00:13:00 — The timeline of the events is shared by Mack, highlighting the urgency and critical nature of the situation at hand.
00:13:54 — Parents in the dark: Mack discusses the hospital’s lack of transparency concerning the baby's condition.
00:15:42 — Exploring emotional trauma, Morgan reveals how the young couple missed a crucial bonding moment with their baby due to medical complications.
00:16:16 — Mack raises the curtain on the grim reality that the parents were actively deceived about the state of their child.
00:17:20 — Joseph Scott Morgan sheds light on the hospital's suggestion to avoid an autopsy and opt for cremation, deepening the layers of this tragic tale.
00:18:40 — The term "medical misadventure" is introduced by Morgan, who likens the medical failures in the case to manslaughter.
00:20:40 — In any medical tragedy, trust is paramount, emphasizes Morgan, particularly when the stakes are a matter of life and death.
00:21:40 — The legal implications come into play as Morgan articulates that this case should have been immediately reported to medical legal authorities.
00:24:06 — Mack discusses the parents' decision to hire Dr. Jackson Gates for an independent autopsy, and the shocking revelation that images of the decapitated baby were posted on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. When we grieve, it's not about simply placing our head in our hands and crying. It's not about |
| 0:27.3 | crying out to the heavens. Why did this happen? There's so many elements to grief |
| 0:31.5 | that, look, I could take a couple hours in my own way of talking about it, but I do know this. |
| 0:38.0 | We as humans are tactile. |
| 0:41.0 | And what I mean is that in order to confirm something in our minds, particularly when it comes to death, there is this indwelling part of us that wants to confirm it. We want to know that that person that we love is in fact |
| 0:57.4 | deceased and very basic level the only way that we can confirm that is if we touch them they don't |
| 1:03.5 | respond when we touch them they are cold and if you never touch the dead |
| 1:10.0 | there's no other kind of cold like the cold of the dead. |
| 1:15.0 | That's why they use terms in literature like the icy fingers of death. |
| 1:19.0 | It's something different, but it is confirmatory for us and I cannot imagine how hard it must be. |
| 1:26.0 | When you are a parent and you lose a child that you are not allowed to hold. |
| 1:32.0 | Today we're going to talk about a case just like this. |
| 1:36.4 | We're family or prevented from cradling their sweet deceased angel. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
| 1:55.1 | Dave some stuff that we talk about on body bags. It's easy for me to get caught up in the science. That's always been a way as a death investigator I've protected myself. |
| 1:59.1 | And I've written about this before I wrote about it in my memoir. |
| 2:01.7 | If I could surround myself with the science that all of the horror |
| 2:06.0 | that I bore witness to, it somehow shielded me. It shielded my mind and my soul. But every now and then there's a case that comes across our desk that really makes |
| 2:17.9 | you question the world that we live in and today is a case such as this and the subject of this case. |
| 2:26.0 | His name was Isaiah and it is absolutely heartbreaking what we have found out. |
| 2:32.0 | A young couple, Jessica Ross and Trevion |
| 2:36.2 | Isaiah Taylor, they are the expectant parents, the pregnancy goes like normal, full |
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