Mayday 1C: Auscultation ~ traditional & scientifically-validated way to listen to FHR

by faithgibson May 1, 2019

Auscultation (also known as hands-on listening) is a non-continuous method used since the early 20th century to monitor fetal well-being (i.e. the verb, not the machine) during active labor. A physician, midwife or L&D nurse uses a fetoscope or hand-held Doppler to regularly listens to the fetal heart rate and rhythm and record the information on the […]

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Mayday Series: 1B ~ Ethical Contradictions for EFM manufacturers, hospitals and obstetrical staff

by faithgibson May 1, 2019

  There is an ethical contradiction inherent in the current practice of obstetrics in the United States, a unique ethical dilemma that affects all Americans. It concerns all of us, even if we, or one of our own family members, is not expecting a baby any time soon. But first, what we are & what we are NOT […]

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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! 1A ~ Calling on Americans to fix a problem wasting millions of healthcare dollars & results in preventable maternal deaths ~ Chapter 1A

by faithgibson May 1, 2019

Editor’s Note: To makes these essays easier to read, I divided the longer ones into parts A, B, C & sometimes D. There are a total 13 posts. At the very end of the Mayday series, I provided links to a series of 8 scientific references and science-based editorials used in writing factual account. Easy […]

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MedScape Article –> To Maintain Trust in Science, Lose the Peer Review

by faithgibson April 23, 2019

Re-post from MedScape – very controversial but all too true! Easy Tiny URL to share:  https://tinyurl.com/y6pjxyl9 To Maintain Trust in Science, Lose the Peer Review Benjamin Mazer, MD, MBA; John M. Mandrola, MD February 19, 2019   “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” In the Internet age, that phrase has never been more fraught. Uncertainty is […]

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Ruthless Reality: How and why abortions were make Illegal or unattainable in 1971 as a political strategy for President Nixon to win re-election

by faithgibson March 16, 2019

An easy shortcut to share ~ http://tinyurl.com/y6jpguf2 Pregnancy – planned or unplanned – is a gender issue that originates with the male of the species. The way to eliminate non-medical abortions is to stop the problem at its source — the end of the penis of the man who is about to father a baby. […]

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