“Skye” was 18 years old when she died of extreme negligence and malpractice. Sometime from 1973 to 1978, she was pregnant for the first time when she went to an abortion facility for a first-trimester surgical abortion.
Skye wasn't given an adequate pre-op examination. Even though her report of her last period put her at 11 weeks, the abortion facility estimated her to be only six weeks pregnant. Records said that after the suction abortion, the removed "products of conception" were immediately examined with the naked eye and then sent to an outside pathologist for further examination, but nothing was apparently found to be suspicious about the remains— or lack of them.
Skye hadn't known that her pregnancy was ectopic. Even after the abortion facility failed to notice this every step of the way, the pathology exam was another chance to save her. If a pathologist examined what had been removed, it should have been immediately obvious that no fetal body parts were there. Skye should have been contacted immediately so she could receive treatment.
But the negligence continued for over a month. Despite multiple opportunities to diagnose her treatable condition, Skye died 47 days later of internal bleeding. Her ectopic pregnancy had ruptured, tearing the wall of her right fallopian tube. Every day that she wasn’t warned was another missed chance to save her life.
("Skye" is Patient 1)
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/371998
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