Re: Doctors leaving delivery rooms over malpractice insurance costs

From: Zachariah Newton (zbnewton@bellsouth.net)
Wed Apr 14 22:06:34 2004


Joe-

There do exist benchmarks. I have no citations.

Bad things happen with intervention, charged by intent of beneficence. In Ob, and everywhere else in life. Benign neglect is way retro in your hypothetical. The balance of availability of informed and benevolent professional care vs. raw nature fails the smell test of any of us who have acted on emergent situations on a 24/7 basis through residency and career.

To raise the rhetorical question of reversion to nature is unfathomable.

Zach Newton Z. B. Newton, III, M.D. Atlanta/Gyn

> ----- Original Message -----
From: DoctorJoe@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:08 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.





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