A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain. — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal. — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain. — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
“The second reason caregivers may be silent about the dark side of epidurals is that they generate big bucks for anesthesiologists and hospitals. Epidural… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
