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Doctors agree that the best hope for preventing infection of newborns lies in more careful monitoring of pregnant women with a history of herpes. If active genital infection is detected before labor, a caesarean will generally protect the infant from contagion. For women who know they have been exposed to herpes but have no visible symptoms, a new 24-hour test for herpes should improve detection...
...half years ago Linda Ferris underwent Caesarean section, in the birth of a daughter, Andrea, at the Pasadena Bayshore Hospital. During the birth, the Ferrises claimed, Andrea suffered the oxygen deprivation that caused her to become permanently brain-damaged; according to doctors, she will remain at the mental and physical level of a two-year-old for the rest of her life, which could be 75 more years...
Doctors at BWH call the Caesarean section rate issue quite separate from other gynecologic complaints. Any discussion of delivery techniques inevitably becomes tied to the national debate on the subject. BWH's Dr. Ryan, for instance, has worked on a National Institute of Health task force on the topic and sent a memo to his staff in July 1981 expressing concern that BWH's section rate was too high. He recommended a long-term review independent of specific complaints Last spring, while the review was still pending and shortly after the Joint Committee filed its grievance. Ryan took what...
...John Davies, Ryan's temporary replacement, notes that "no one knows what a proper rate of Caesarean sections would be. "He adds. "There isn't any date to support the statement" that the BWH rate is too high...
Other doctors argue that BWH's Caesarean rate is high because, as a teaching hospital, it serves as a referral center for high-risk and complicated cases. And they add that concern for the safety for both mother and baby sometimes conflicts with patient preference for "natural" childbirth and maximum choice for the mother, who may not want to be operated on or drugged...