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Re: 'Clanking the forceps'From: K Dew (kdew@bellsouth.net)Mon Oct 16 07:35:18 2000
As a student the residents would sometimes call for the forceps to be opened and placed on the table. They were not clanked, they were not shown to the parturient, they were there "prophyllactically" For whatever reason, call it voodoo if you will, it seemed that expulsive efforts sometimes increased and the baby would be born. As a resident, I did a rotation at a Catholic hospital and the attendings would sometimes call for the forceps, put them together and make the Sign of the Cross over the perineum with the same results. All in all, the action of getting out the forceps, clanking them, waving them at the perineum or whatever is, for the most part, a pun, a joke, an attempt at levity, nothing more. To Dawna Caldwell, if she's still reading. Get a grip. I don't believe for a minute that anyone on this list advocates "ripping" a baby out with forceps. Kevin Dew, MD OB/GYN Bardstown, KY
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