> ::nod:: come to think of it I don't think anyone > even tried to do one on me. But they may have > gotten the general idea from what I said about > the epidural :P I can be a bit sharp-tongued at > times.
I have a tendancy to be generally distrustfull of doctors, especially obstetricians, because of having read some history on the subject. Knowing for instance that dr's prescribing DES to women to ease labor as though it was candy in the 50's likely causing lots of incompetent cervix problems in their daughters. http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00052860.html Or having read some of The Silent Knife: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0897890272/qid=112092323 5/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/104-6308432-0134354?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 And then noting the facts: World Health Organization says everyone has a right to know cesarean rates, and that realistically they shouldn't exceed more than about 10%, yet in the US the rate was more than 2x this at nearly 25%. http://www.vbac.com/hottopic/highestrate.html At the time you couldn't get statistics of any kind from the website for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. They had a public website, but it looked very much as though they really wanted to avoid giving people information about their practices. The American Academy of Nurse Midwives by comparison was very accomodating, providing a much more reasonable statistic of 11% as their cesarean rate at the time. And in Dallas specifically (where my ex and I had our first daughter), the rate was a MASSIVE 33%. So for every 3 women through a Dallas hospital, they gutted one. And out of the ones they gutted, slightly less than one in three of them may have actually needed the operation. Of course, I have all kinds of people telling me "oh it's not that bad, it's not that invasive"... which is a load of bullshit... There's a significant difference between something being survivable and being trivial. Let me cut a gaping hole through your abdominal wall that spans both your hips and see how invasive it feels to you. Why else would it be that there's been so much fanfare over the laparoscope? It allows us to see inside the abdomen with significantly less physical trauma, but a cesarean can't be performed by laparoscope. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9931 And it really INFURIATES me that the medical profession held on to the philosophy of being tight-lipped and keeping valuable information from the (stupid) patient for so many years... I can think of another organization that didn't want people to be informed, and I hadn't been very impressed with them either. Anyway... I'll stand down off my soapbox now. It is good to see that information is becoming more available to people now. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:164124 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
