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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^yes there are a few harpies trolling these threads to make sure everyone knows how dangerous, painful, damaging etc childbirth is and how midwives and natural birth advocates are poisoning the medical establishment. We should all get inductions and c-sections and call it a day (except that they're not actually making birth safer, as in the case of this woman who died anyway). [/quote]

did you read the article?[/quote]

I read the article. I'm not the PP. The article clearly describes a situation in which all the "modern medicine" available - you know, the kind the trolls say we should all take advantage of because it's not a contest and you don't get a prize for skipping the epidural or being skeptical of the induction and we should all just listen to our doctors - didn't catch a very common problem and a woman died as a result. The problem is not "the medical establishment" - the problem is that professionals of all types cut corners, often with very dire consequences, and when better models of care exist, it takes a long time to adopt them, usually because it is expensive to do so. This woman died because her hospital staff ratios were large enough that the direness of her situation was missed until it was too late and by that point, the best case scenario was impossible to achieve because the hospital itself didn't have the necessary supplies to enact it. Then there was a total failure of accountability, leaving the obvious conclusion that this will absolutely happen again glaringly on the table.

I appreciate induction protocols and safe c-sections. They are often life saving. But one cannot ignore the patient in front of them in favor of relying on the technology alone. The patient experience is still important and overreliance on technology glosses over that experience. This woman was a trained nurse. She could've articulated her experience better than anyone on this thread. Her experience was ignored by people she worked with. If that happened to her, what do you think would happen to a nobody like you when you ended up in her position?[/quote]

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