Re: CNM asking questions for the OBs
From: Meenan, Anna, Kevin (annam@uic.edu)
Fri Apr 14 22:02:25 2006
No, not all of them (been working at a big U for 21 years), but there
are a few in every class. The majority of our top students still
make excellent physicians, though fewer and fewer are going into OB,
which just confirms how smart they are.
Anna Meenan, MD
>No, actually.
>
>Of course, Middle Wives MAY be more favored, because the top of the
>class today (and those of you near academic institutions chime in
>here) are quite likely Aspys, or close to it. They have very
>marginal "people" skills, book study all the time, and end up being
>clinically very poor. Not always, so don't anyone get offended out
>there if Junior is top of his class and Podunk U. But the nerd
>factor in the smart ones does not lend itself well to OB-GYN.
>
>Joe P.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grace Loehr <divinegracie@earthlink.net>
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><snipped Doctor Joe's great post>
>
>So, it's half of the bottom 10% of medical school classes with their
>trickle down academics who are responsible for the state of modern
>American obstetrics, with its sky high c-section rate, high
>interventionist philosophy, and insecurity in regards to midwives?
>
>Would this picture look any different if half of the top 10% of
>medical school graduates were OB-Gynes? (I know, they'd become
>midwives instead.)
>
>:)
>
><ducking and running>
>
>Grace
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