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[quote=Anonymous]"No, but if we're discussing worldwide healthcare ratings and you bring up medical errors, you've got to make a case that there are more medical errors in the US than abroad. Medical errors are everywhere, human nature. Of course they can be incentivized in the wrong kind of system. I'm not sure we have a worse problem here than abroad, though." But the difference is that in the U.S. OBs deliver a majority of babies, and they are trained to medicalize birth - go right to a c-section rather than use skill as a midwife would do to get a baby out, for example. In other countries, midwives or nurses deliver a greater number babies (often in a hospital setting) and pain relief (epidurals, etc.) is used much less. I'm talking about Japan, Sweden, the UK - advanced countries.[/quote]
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