‘Aftershock’ doc: ‘A black woman having a baby is like a black man at a traffic stop with the police’
19.07.2022 - 02:55
/ nypost.com
unplanned C-section at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx on April 20, 2020, Amber Rose Isaac excitedly said to boyfriend Bruce McIntyre III, “ ‘This is it! Then we’re all going home together,’ ” he told The Post. But, tragically Isaac, 26, would never leave the operating table. “She passed away due to an unscheduled emergency C-section that stemmed from medical negligence and incompetence throughout her entire pregnancy,” said McIntyre, 31, who claimed to The Post that her death was “1,000% preventable.” Isaac’s tragic story is detailed in the new Hulu documentary “Aftershock,” out Tuesday. The film, which won the Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change at Sundance, examines the maternal mortality crisis in the US and how it disproportionately affects black women.
On April 17, 2020, McIntyre rushed Issac to Montefiore’s Einstein campus, where her mother Renita had worked for 25 years. They hoped she’d receive medical attention for the persistent headaches, bouts of dizziness and shortness of breath she’d endured for weeks. Issac, a black and Puerto Rican art psychology student at Concordia College, alerted several OBGYNs of her ailments. However, according to McIntyre, her medical woes were shrugged off by doctors as “typical pregnancy symptoms.” It turned out, however, that she was suffering from hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets in pregnancy, or HELLP syndrome — a serious complication of high blood pressure during pregnancy. “The doctors had plenty of time to catch it … and they didn’t,” said McIntyre, noting that it was actually their newly hired doula/midwife assistant, Nubia Martin, who urged Isaac to go to the hospital after learning that her platelets had dropped from a normal
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