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Caught on Video – Comments from childbearing women or their husbands reporting frequent obstetrical abuse and non-consensual obstetrical interventions

by faithgibson May 3, 2023

Caught on Video: Improving Birth Breaks the Silence on Abuse of Women in Maternity Care Posted by Cristen Pascucci on  August 28, 2014  · 71 Comments To the reader: We are proud to say that we recognize and appreciate the many doctors, nurses, midwives, and other professionals who practice and promote respectful, evidence-based care. We do not […]

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Ch 5: The Disturbing story of obstetrics in America from 1910 to 1980

by faithgibson April 25, 2023

  A Visionary and Renaissance Man and who dreamed really big!?? Dr. Williams’ solution to this classic economic dilemma — not enough paying customers to support the business model for a first-class hospital, and not enough first-class general hospitals to serve the American population — was to devise rather complicated plan with many different moving […]

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Ch 4: The distrubing Story of obstetrica in America ~ 1910 to 1930

by faithgibson April 25, 2023

  Ch 4 ~ Two problems, one solution, a big win for society at the expense of healthy childbearing women From Dr. JWW’s perspective, as former chief of obstetrics and Dean of a famous American medical school, the biggest and difficult problem was the desperate lack of “general” hospitals able to provide  “comprehensive” services  in […]

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Ch ? ~ The Disturbing Story of obstetrics in American ~ 1910 to 1980

by faithgibson April 25, 2023

Chapter ? 3-b ? ~ The Historical Role of Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, most famous obstetrician of the 20th century and author of “Williams’ Obstetrics” Dr. J. Whitridge Williams was the most famous and highly-lauded American obstetrician of the 20th century. In addition to being highly influential within his profession peers and original author of […]

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Midwifery vs. midwives: What doctors referred to as “The Midwife Problem” i.e. the problem they had in getting rid of midwives!

by faithgibson April 19, 2023

Originally posted November 25, 2012  OVERVIEW: The following historical material begins by referring to “the midwife problem“efforts by the obstetrical profession to “eliminate the midwife“, As time passed they included the eradication of midwifery as a professional discipline to their goals. The campaign by influential American obstetricians to eliminate the practice of midwives and the […]

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