The Squeezing of Midwives and further loss of Choice
www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090810/ARTICLES/908109956/1004?Title=Demonstrators-upset-about-midwives-being-phased-out
Received this article from my colleague Susan Jenkins back east. Seems like this is going on all over. Pretty obvious to me that unseemly economic forces are coercing supportive doctors to make Sophie's Choice. Ultimately surrendering and reluctantly hurting midwives and the patients they serve. Once again the unseen bullies are the hospitals and their risk manager lawyers responding to their malpractice insurance carriers and their risk managers lawyers who fear unreasonable law suits from trial lawyers, of which there are way too many, and a tort system that is completely broken. This has to end and reason must return. The alternative is unthinkable SJF
Received this article from my colleague Susan Jenkins back east. Seems like this is going on all over. Pretty obvious to me that unseemly economic forces are coercing supportive doctors to make Sophie's Choice. Ultimately surrendering and reluctantly hurting midwives and the patients they serve. Once again the unseen bullies are the hospitals and their risk manager lawyers responding to their malpractice insurance carriers and their risk managers lawyers who fear unreasonable law suits from trial lawyers, of which there are way too many, and a tort system that is completely broken. This has to end and reason must return. The alternative is unthinkable SJF