Each Quote by Ina May Gaskin Download Open image “We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.” — Ina May Gaskin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Each Lot Medicine Other Physicians Teach
“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
Seeing what midwives do on a day-to-day basis - you really have this renewed respect for them. — Emma Willis Copy Share Image
We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us. — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and… — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey Copy Share Image
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young,… — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share
What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago,… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This male-derived framework for care is a product of the industrial revolution. As anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd has described in detail, underlying the technocratic mode of care of our own time is an assumption that the human body… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad. — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“I have felt incredible energy and life force through my body, and I have really been reborn a happier, healthier, and more confident person.… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end… — Scott Tolzien Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
