MANA responds to the AMA

Jul 15, 2008 15:47






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cvirtue July 15 2008, 20:50:43 UTC
I'm delighted that they included references -- those are essential!

Edit: did you leave it f-locked on purpose? I'd like to send folks over here to read it.

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bess July 15 2008, 21:06:43 UTC
It was friends-locked merely by habit -- I've made it public now. Go ahead and send people to it.

Yeah -- it's important to include references when talking about something like this -- particularly because many people just don't believe that homebirth is as safe, if not safer, than hospital birth.

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hfcougar July 16 2008, 02:20:15 UTC
Meanwhile, the rest of us get more and more terrified of the prospect of someday having to have a hospital birth...

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redaxe July 16 2008, 12:10:24 UTC
"arrogant, patronizing and self-serving"

Precisely. (That's all the worst things I've ever encountered in doctors, particularly. It's not limited to them, but those particular symptoms are my red flags to move on AT ONCE.)

I'll gladly point folks at this as appropriate. (For now, though, I'm enjoying being outdoors in Bryant Park, on a gorgeous morning, on a day when I don't have to rush home to watch the kids, who are with M in Ithaca.)

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