Re: Section on demand**Experience**
From: Garry E. Siegel, M.D. (garrys@mindspring.com)
Fri Apr 28 08:52:16 2006
Zach:
I am honored to be able to enjoy your intelligence and experience
packaged in such a fine way. Keep on posting, and give thanks to the
Newtons and every teacher that you had for your fine prose.
Garry
At Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Zachariah Newton wrote:
>
>Heidi-
>
>Your innocence is reflected in your fervent position of the apparent
>discrepancy in your cited examples. You find your position to be black and
>white.
>
>Life meanders in a gray fog. Each birthday brings more clear focus on "The
>Law of Unintended Consequences."
>Logical consistency is an imperative. Behaviorial consistency is
>inconsistent with logical consistency. The application of judgment derived
>from the grand amalgam of study, experience, environment and available tools
>together with character strength and intellect is required for the
>professional to rise above the limitations of a cookbook.
>
>Your instincts are solid. Your behavior here has been inappropriate. You
>have potential to be a valuable contributor. You also have potential to be a
>chronic irritant, destined to find a new life as a castaway.
>
>Your choice.
>
>zbn
>
>---
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Heidi Streufert" <heidi@nybble.net>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:55 PM
>Subject: Re: Section on demand**Experience**
>
>> Folks, over the past 5 years on this list I have posted maybe 10 times,
>> and I stated right up front that I haven't got a huge sample size to draw
>> on.
>>
>> I haven't disparaged anyone on this list for their clinical skills. I
>> haven't questioned any statements made on the list that didn't later turn
>> out to need a correction, and I haven't advocated the abolition of
>> obstetrics or claimed that homebirth should be universal.
>> I simply questioned the disparity in supporting a woman's choice to elect
>> a surgery when it is not the most medically sound decision, while
>> criminalizing another woman's choice to elect a home birth even if it is
>> not the most meidcally sound decision. I support BOTH choices. It was as
>> simple as that.
>> Heidi
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: garrys@mindspring.com (Garry E. Siegel, M.D.)
>>
>> Heidi, we all continue to learn, and 100 births are a good start--no
>> doubt--but not too many. Keep your eyes and ears open, and maybe type
>> just a little less :).
>>
--
Garry E. Siegel, M.D.
Private Practice
Roswell, GA
