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Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs From: Garry E. Siegel, M.D. (garrys@mindspring.com) Wed Apr 14 11:43:44 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Gerald P. Rodríguez: "Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Previous message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: OB NEC and breastfeeding" Gerald: I think you do understand Joe's point, and there is some validity in it. Mothers and babies would not suffer and/or die left and right if they all delivered at home--nature has performed that experiment for years! Due to the inherent high likelihood of good outcomes, it would take a good number of deliveres at home/unattended to make a dent in the good statistics in the modern world. Garry At Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Gerald P. Rodríguez wrote: > >Joe, > >I'm likely more obtuse than most on the list, but I must admit that I don't understand your comment--is it tongue-in-cheek, or is it that you believe there "If all the mothers delivered at home," there would not be much difference in morbidity/mortality rates for moms and babies?? Draw me a picture... > >Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG >Santa Fe > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >"There are very few things wholly evil or wholly good; almost >everything is an inseparable compound of the two." >--Abraham Lincoln >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > From: DoctorJoe@aol.com > To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 6:08 PM > Subject: Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs > > In a message dated 4/12/04 16:13:46, dkrell@msn.com writes: > > My question is...how many OBGYN's have to go out of practice in order for > people > to realize that a problem exists and to actually DO something about it? > Given the analogy to 9/11, I think that it would take a major catastrophe > and then, people would only remember it for a short period of time. > > Okay, suppose NO ob-gyns delivered babies. If all the mothers delivered at home, how bad off would the statistics be? > > Joe P. -- Garry E. Siegel, M.D. Private Practice Roswell, GA Next message: Gerald P. Rodríguez: "Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs" Previous message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: OB NEC and breastfeeding"

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