Re: TENS unit and labor
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Feb 9 12:18:22 2005
Take two placebos and call me in the AM
art
At Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Terrence.Jones@kp.org wrote:
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> Good point, John. If only we could quantify this effect, we might
>palliate the bean counters... "Coaching" is an important confounder in
>outcomes. Take the Patriots for example. Any intervention, any tool, is as
>good as the hand that holds it. Give Pablo Picasso a stick and a sandy
>beach... tj
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>At Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:
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>>I have an Australian patient who wants to use a TENS unit while in labor.
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><br><font size=2 face="Courier New">At Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote:<br>
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>>I have an Australian patient who wants to use a TENS unit while in labor. <br>
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art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
