18 Nov 1937 – 16 Feb 1961
Great-Great-Grand-Daughter of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Great-Grand-Daughter of Jean Paul Cardon and Magdalene Beus
Grand-daughter of Earnest William Cardon and Annie Marshall
Daughter of Paul Marshall Cardon and Alda Schow
A Textbook of Postpartum Hemorrhage: A Comprehensive Guide to Evaluation, Management and Surgical Intervention
Page 382
UNLICENSED PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS (1963)
Only two cases of postpartum hemorrhage have been litigated where a professional attendant at delivery was not licensed to practice obstetrics. Earlier, the 1907 case of Midwife Porn was discussed. The only other reported case was in 1963. Bernhardt and Lund were two doctors of chiropractic, but they held themselves out as competent in the management of childbirth. They supervised the delivery of Ladean Stojakovich at home, but unfortunately she had a postpartum hemorrhage and she died before she could be transferred to hospital. They were charged and convicted of breach of the Business and Professions Code (for practicing medicine) and of manslaughter (for causing a death that was avoidable). Suprisingly, and for complex legal reasons, the Court of Appeals of California reversed both convictions, and it denied a request for retrial.