[Magdalen] new ways to deliver baby / was-->Re: Prayer request for a safe...

[Jay Weigel]

When I was working neonatal, there was one family practitioner still doing
deliveries. The others had either retired, or in the case of one DO, gotten
out because of, as Sibyl states, the cost of malpractice insurance. There
were 3 distinct OB practices in the small town, one a pair of older guys,
one group of three younger ones (two of whom were, in the opinion of
neonatal staff arrogant jerks, the other was okay), and one young dude in
solo practice. About the time I started there, a young female
Harvard-trained OB/GYN arrived. She was treated like crap by the male OBs
but she took all the cases they wouldn't, mostly Medicaid, teen
pregnancies, and the burgeoning Hispanic population. She was kind of
prickly but I liked her. I figured she was that way because of the way the
guys treated her. (I later found out that she was in an abusive marriage;
she finally kicked her husband out after he broke her arm....we met him
when she had her baby and everyone hated him cordially.) At that time there
were no nurse-midwives in the area; OBs generally were anti-midwife, seeing
them as "competition". Later on they figured out that they could let the
midwives do the "routine" deliveries and nighttime stuff and they could
handle all the high risk deliveries and be "heroes". Of course the female
OB was the first one to have a midwife in her office (she was, and is to
this day, in solo practice). No family practitioners do deliveries there
any more. BUT.....the old OBs have retired, the 3 young guys have gone
separate ways and reconfigured, there are new OBs in town, there are CNMs
and nurse practitioners with most of them, and there is a birthing center
of sorts, although it's part of the hospital. The more things change, the
more they remain the same, I suspect.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> Pretty good for a dermatologist, all right!
>
> The DO who delivered my baby, complete with prenatal care and everything,
> was very proud of the several thousand babies he had delivered in his
> career.  But then he had to stop doing it (deliberately, at least) because
> the malpractice insurance rates got way too high for him.
>
> Did you know that Dr. Ben Carson, a brain surgeon, delivered his second
> son by accident?  They had the arrangements all made to go to the hospital
> when it was time, the obstetrician knew, of course, that the baby was going
> to be coming "soon", grandma was sleeping in the house with them so she
> could take care of the older boy while they were gone.  But #2 son had
> other ideas for the best laid plans.  Mrs Carson woke up in the double bed
> with him when the baby was already coming.  She nudged her husband hard,
> woke him with a bit of difficulty, and while he was on the phone with the
> hospital, and simultaneously putting his pants on, he also almost literally
> "caught" the baby.  Then they had to ransack the house for something to
> clamp the cord something close to properly, the conscious and talking and
> thinking missus giving directions on where to look.  (Grandma had woken up
> during this). Then mother and baby were transported to the hospital in an
> ambulance for her obstetrician to do all the necessary checks and tests,
> etc.
>
> The things that you run into when reading biographies related to politics!
>
> On 10/30/16 9:57 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/30/2016 9:50:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> they  labor in chic  rooms>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>
>> My lifetime record stands at 324 deliveries back in the day when
>> residents (in my case "moonlighting" in private hospitals) delivered
>> babies at night and on weekends.
>>
>> Pretty good for a dermatologist.
>>
>>
>>
>> David S.
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>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>