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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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The Wrong Use of Obstetrics ~ An Expensive and Deadly American Tragedy, Part 1

by faithgibson June 14, 2024

  The Wrong Use of Obstetrics An Expensive and Deadly American Tragedy ~ June 2024 ~ Background: This is the true story of Dr J.W. William’s dream of a nationwide system of general hospitals using fund generated by the elective hospitalization of healthy wealthy maternity patients as told in the 1914 book “Twilight Sleep: Simple […]

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AMA Crime spree — 21 state and professional abduction of of 75 independent healthcare practititoners

by faithgibson May 23, 2024

To read original posts Parts 1 & Part 2 My Comments I recently got an email from the president of our state’s midwifery organization describing a combined years-long effort by CALM and two consumer organizations to find a State legislator willing and able to carry a much-needed bill to undo the damage done by a 2013 amendment to the […]

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