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by faithgibson October 15, 2021
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Physicians Have an Ethical Obligation to be Honest Spokespersons for Medical Science ~

by faithgibson June 3, 2021

The Obligation of Physicians to be Unbiased  Spokespersons and “Honest Brokers” for all of Medical Science including Obstetrical Medicine  In the United States, physicians (MDs) are the natural spokespersons for the scientific discipline of allopathic medicine. While that status bestows many privileges, those privileges are matched by many responsibilities unique to the medical profession. The […]

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Response to NYT Editorial on the High Cost of Health Care ~ November 25, 2007

by faithgibson June 3, 2021

Originally published on the front page of my “NormalBirth.org” website I am reposting this essay from 2007 as an example of how the story never really changes — we still have an obstetrical system that systematically imposes harmful and unnecessary interventions and surgical procedures on healthy women with normal pregnancies. This unproductively expensive, totally unrepentant […]

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Understanding why the American obstetrical model doesn’t work very well for anyone & does so at an annual cost of $1.600,000,000,000

by faithgibson January 9, 2021

$1.600,000,000,000 is $1.6 billion, or the annual cost of obstetrical services in the US Excerpt of a 10-29-2010 email to Dr. Ruth Haskins, California obstetrician and seated member of the state Medical Board’s Midwifery Advisory Council Editor’s Note: I posted this because it is an excellent synopsis of why the contemporary obstetrical profession in America […]

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Reconciling the Irreconcilable — Learning to love our dysfunctional maternity care system so we can help fix it

by faithgibson July 30, 2020

Originally written sometime between 2008 &  2010 Reconciling the Irreconcilable                            or “Learning to love the bomb” ^O^ Yes, we need to learn to love our dysfunctional maternity care/obstetricalized system. For our own good and the good of childbearing families we need to […]

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