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Chapter one ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America and the 20th-century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 1, 2025

Complied by Faith Gibson, LM, 2007 word count 5575 ~ 01-25-2025 Historical & Contemporary Background on the 20th-century practice of  “obstetrics” for healthy women, the profession of midwifery and its relationship with organized medicine The unfortunate truth about America is that we have the highest maternal mortality rate  (MMR) of any wealthy industrialized country in […]

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Personal letter 2014 from Wendy about 1914 TW bk & pages quotes Dr. JWW (savd-2025)

by faithgibson December 31, 2024

  Dear Wendy,   Started reading your book and got so excited that I had to stop and send you the following collection of quotes on the unique form of eugenics espoused in “TWILIGHT SLEEP – Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth” published in 1914.   My original problem with this extraordinary historical material was getting […]

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Chapter 1 ~ A Time Traveler’s Perspective on Normal Childbirth  ~

by faithgibson December 31, 2024

word count 8836 Chapter 1 ~A Time Traveler’s Perspective on Normal Childbirth  ~ from WORD doc savd Jan-17-2025 “Whole Enchilada” originally posted 2005 — has 14 or 15 chapters, all way too long  — Chapter one draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans […]

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HealthCare_2.0 Tell-A-Vision for the 21st Century

by faithgibson November 10, 2024

HealthCare_2.0 Tell-A-Vision for the 21st Century The Debate on Health Care Policy Reform ~ an exercise in pseudo-journalism Dateline: June 21, 2009                                                    Challenging ChokepointMedicine blog PDF version to print or send to your Kindle of read on a smart phone with Kindle appSee Table of Contents & Links to each specific topics  (separate page)Five-Point Wrap Up: The […]

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Part 2 ~ The Wrong Use of Obstetrics ~ An Expensive and Deadly American Tragedy

by faithgibson June 14, 2024

  Pie-in-the-Sky Conundrum Facing Dr. Williams     Basically, there were only two logical sources of money to fund this important nationwide system of general-purpose hospitals. One was the profit from thousands private hospitals (best est. 8,000 hospitals in US at that time) existing at that time, and the other was public funding provided by the […]

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