Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Business of Being Born

The Business of Being Born

This is an excellent though often frightening look at where US childbirth has gone vs other western countries.  Being on the 'receiving' end of hospital-delivered babies, I have also had a sense that we have entered a spiral of medicalization and created complications... very scary!  But the litigious nature of this country makes it nearly impossible for the OB world to do anything "less" than maximal intervention.

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