I don't think she is playing the dead baby card in that sense. I read it that she is saying that the person obviously felt the need to call an ambulance, and barring there being professional qualified help already on site, then she feels the best course of action is to go to hospital to at least be checked out. Because you know, health professionals have to live with their decisions, and have a tendency to replay things in their heads over and over again. And yes, one bad incident can affect how you deal with future scenarios, so maybe cut her some slack.
I think what Nickle was trying to explain is that she can be called to trial for a bad outcome or a death that occurred after she left the scene. Her job could easily be lost, or worse. You can like or dislike that, but it IS a fact. That's why it can be difficult to do anything that is considered "higher risk" at home with a midwife, at hospital with a doctor, or ob, or whoever, or with a paramedic attending in an emergency. They have a professional responsibility to you, and they can face consequences if things don't turn out well. Again, that can restrict your options and impair your freedom, but that is the way things are right now.
So then what Nickle is saying is not "Your baby is going to die if I don't take you to the hospital" but more like "If something happens to your baby, and someone takes it upon themselves to prove that it happened because I didn't take you in, then I can be charged with negligence, or something like that, and lose my job and possibly be looking at penalties or jail time." She's the one that you are forcing risk on by refusing to go. If you want to take risk on yourself with your choices, be they well-informed or otherwise, then that's one thing. Forcing someone else to take on risk they are not comfortable with is something else.
If we go on your theory Cricket, then she is talking not out of professional experience but only career protecting - which is a much scarier thought, and not what i got out of her post.
So, people who are high risk are left with no support, can't ring the ambulance etc unless they are willing to adhere to whatever the dr/midwife/ambo suggests. Scary world this is becoming.
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