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...caesarean to avoid a difficult birth can rarely be faulted legally; on the other hand, a physician who performs a forceps delivery may find himself facing a malpractice suit if the infant turns out impaired. New York Hospital's executive associate director, Melville Platt, a former practicing obstetrician, notes that such "defensive" medicine makes good economic sense. In 1969 a New York City obstetrician had to pay $3,000 a year for malpractice protection. Today the same coverage costs...
...move was not sexist. It was simply part of the notion that all life's problems could best be corrected through technology. In difficult births, a midwife was clearly no match for a trained obstetrician, often backed by hospital facilities. In the U.S. at least, a steady shift to doctor, and then doctor-plus-hospital deliveries soon threatened to turn midwifery into a lost art, and in many states an outlawed one. Old-fashioned "granny" midwifery is still in decline. But delivery by professional nurses and trained lay midwives is now becoming more popular in the U.S., though...
...medical crisis, both mother and baby are safer with immediate access to hospital facilities. Still, if money talks, and it usually does, the use of properly trained midwives is a service that U.S. medicine and U.S. mothers can hardly afford to do without. Says Dr. Donald Creevy, a California obstetrician who favors the new bill: "The medical profession can't go on saying, 'If you don't accept good care on our terms, you don't get good care...
More important, family practitioners are winning the loyalty of their clientele. Says one of Bishop's patients: "If we need him, we can call him at night and he'll help us." Adds an expectant mother: "I'd rather go to Dr. Bishop than an obstetrician. He can take care of me, my husband and our baby. We have gotten to know him as a friend...
This glimpse of prenatal life is an extraordinary technical feat by a West German obstetrician, Dr. Hans Frangenheim, who helped develop the pencil-thin telescopic optics, and a Washington, D.C., endoscopist, Dr. John L. Marlow, who did the actual photography in a West German hospital. TV viewers are not told that, unlike the babies of the three mothers, the embryos shown were doomed. Because of the experimental nature of the photography-and the possible risk it posed-it was done only in the wombs of women about to undergo abortions...