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[quote=Anonymous]So getting the conversation back on track:

I have mixed feelings about this survey.  I absolutely felt dismissed by my midwives & pediatricians, to the point where I felt they put me and my kid at risk; and I also felt mistreated by the way they spoke to me.

That said, I don't think there's a correlation between bedside manner and the quality of medical care you receive.  And I don't think these issues are necessarily unique to childbirth -- hospitals are sh*tshows for every kind of treatment.  It's just that childbirth is often the first time a person may experience what it's like to be in the hospital or deal with a major medical issue.  So I wonder how much this has to do with maternity, and how much it has to do with health care in general?  And how much of this has to do with women not understanding how decisions are made in childbirth -- like the woman who insisted she was fending off the evil doctors who wanted to do a c-section for no reason?

As for the race aspect - I also wonder how much the mistreatment has to do with the type of hospital.  Would a black woman who say went to Sibley (a rich, white hospital that by all accounts here is generally a good experience) have a disparity in experience compared to white women? Or is it that black & indigenous & latina women end up at worse hospitals?  Obviously there's racism in both scenarios, but I think the difference matters in terms of how to solve the problem.  It's interesting to note that the hospital that gets the MOST complaints on DCUM (GW) is likely also the hospital in the region with the highest %% of medicare patients.

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