article about OBs in CT

[amyjeans]

Hi All,
Living in CT and being pregnant can be a challenge, especially if you want OB care and a medicallized birth!

http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-b...eadlines-local


Seems our state is having a tough time with malpractice suits costing too much for OBs, (probably because there are WAY too many of them!)so why not increase the patients premiums in order to cover this unnessicary, costly and inherently poor supplimental insurance for the doctors!

If OBs stopped trying to manage birth as a medical procedure and viewed it as a natural event, there probably would be no need to use this type of insurance for such circumstances!

Anyone else seeing this trend happening in their area?

Thanks for listening to me

[pamamidwife]

We're seeing it here in Oregon. It's really sad because they can't see the forest for the trees. It's like they don't see a correlation.

Really, I'm thinking it is American jurors that have a hard time seeing the correlation with iatrogenic complications.

Very few people want to be proactive in their health care. They nod and get shuffled along to the point where if something goes wrong, they want immediate litigation.

Where does it end? How does it get "fixed"? Everything in our culture is medicalized - have high blood pressure? take a pill! have diabetes? here's insulin! high cholesterol? lipitor! nothing is really done about preventative care.

sorry, I'm on a rant. I realize. I'll get off your soapbox now.

[amyjeans]

SO True!!!!
The basis for the medical intervention I experience is not how to prevent situations but to handle the "it happened, now what?" scenario. You only know where you've been, never how you got there, and certainly not where you're going!

After 80+ years of letting the Medical community believe they have a handle on the whole "birth" experience, they have yet to get it right!

I just read a great article about the history of midwifery care, and feel terribly sad at what was lost when the financial (oops) I mean "medical" world thought they could do it better and interveined!

http://midwifeinfo.com/history.php#one

(Pamela- you've probably read this one!)

Medical intervention is the true "birth control" in our America.
It could stop a person from ever wanting another child, allow power to be transfered to those who don't deserve it, and create an atmosphere of animosity and discouragemet on every level!

Wow! When I get going....
(i'll take a breath now, thank you! lol)

[MonkeyPrincess]

It's happening here in PA, too. Lots of practices hopping around to different hospitals, lots more docs just calling it quits...

When will they get it?!