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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's so fascinating to me that pregnancy and child birth are pretty much the only medical situations people so eagerly discount medical experts under the view of "my body, my choice."

No one tries to tell a heart surgeon when to do a procedure. [/quote]

It’s interesting you see it this way because it also seems to me that pregnancy and birth are the only medical situations where people try to scare and bully patients with such regularity.

I have never met an orthopedic surgeon who, if a patient says they want to try physical therapy/cortisone shots for a knee injury  before surgery, starts threatening them with losing their leg. Meanwhile as soon as you don’t agree with your OBs suggestion of an intervention— even if what you’re seeking is well within the standard practice— it’s accusations of selfishness and typically bad parenting, at least from the online crowd but often from (bad) OB practices.

My theory is that the orthopedist has to live with the outcome more. They get to see the patient whose surgery failed, experience their pain, hear about the loss of mobility/detriment to quality of life. An OB never sees the underweight baby after delivery,  and then gets to write whatever intervention off as the mother’s choice. [/quote]

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