Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ...
by theli0nheart on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:04PM
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>> now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine.
> This is so blatantly factually incorrect that it actually makes me sick to read.
Many of our friends are pregnant or have just had kids, and my wife is 9 months pregnant. We've had a lot of talk about this with them. I wouldn't by any means say that scheduling a C-section is something everyone does, but it's incredibly common. I know of two pregnant women in our peer group that already have a date on the calendar.
Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ...
by nommm-nommm on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:19PM
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There is not very many obgyns you can convince to do that.
Re:Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, ...
by theli0nheart on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:32PM
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That's good to hear. There's no way our OB would do it either, but I suppose if you're the sort of person who wants one, you keep asking until you get it.
This is so blatantly factually incorrect that it actually makes me sick to read.
>I simply wanted to correlate that more interventions = more risk.
This is not always true and the maternal death rate shows that. I'll give you an example - I have a friend who had a scheduled C-section recently. She had a medical condition that made giving birth vaginally very risky from a health perspective. She could have been fine but there was a very large chance childbirth also could have triggered disability or death. She had a whole team of doctors coordinate with each other to choose the least risky option and they agreed that a scheduled C-section was best option for both maternal and fetal health. More intervention = much less risk in this case.