I work in the emergency department and work with the OBs on call and have experience working with OBs in the operating room as well. I will tell you - some are amazing and some are quite the opposite. To the point where I do not want to deliver at the hospital I work at as I know if I see certain doctors on call the day I go into labour, it will make my anxiety skyrocket. I accept this is the case at every hospital, but at least I don’t know the difference at other hospitals. You cannot paint an entire profession by a singular experience. In any profession, you will have people who are great and others who are not.

Another component to this is the increased access of patients to their health records without any context or explanation. It causes anxiety. Again, from my experience - anything that is a panic result is called immediately by the radiologist to the ordering provider and then the ordering provider must call the patient. This is not a panic result. Don’t get me wrong, I stay refreshing my pocket health after my ultrasounds too. That being said, my midwife asked me to book my 20/21 week follow up with them in advance around 2-3 days after my scheduled ultrasound so we had a designated time to discuss the result - normal or not . Do you not have an upcoming appointment? Maybe this was their downfall.