Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs
From: Gerald P. Rodríguez (geraldpr@cybermesa.com)
Wed Apr 14 12:24:40 2004
I think it is a question of where you draw the line. If Joe means that women
would be at home without having had modern pre-natal care or any access to
hospital-setting diagnosis or intervention, then I would dispute the
inference that (if) "NO ob-gyns delivered babies" there would not be a major
negative impact on maternal and perinatal infant mortality.
Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
Santa Fe
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Garry E. Siegel, M.D." <garrys@mindspring.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs
> 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
>
