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Re: casual research questionFrom: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Fri Jun 29 12:18:28 2007
.. I have an interesting story about epidurals. In the mid 1980's, when I first started a general ob/gyn practice in Western Massachusetts, my wife and I had a foreign exchange (high school) student live with us for a year. As I practiced in a small hospital, they would occasionally let the student watch a delivery (with the patient's consent, of course).. As time went by, our student returned to Denmark, got married, became pregnant, and went to the hospital in labor. During the labor, she kept asking to have an epidural. The doctors and nurses could not figure out how she knew about epidurals, but eventually they relented and allowed her to have the desired procedure. She later told us, when she visited us in the Untied States, and brought her son with her, that she was so grateful to have found out about epidurals when she was an exchange student with us, and how much the epidural improved the quality of her labor. - - - - -----Original Message----- From: DoctorJoe@aol.com Sent: Jun 29, 2007 11:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: casual research question In a message dated 6/29/2007 11:21:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, westsidebirthservice@juno.com writes: So where do you think the epidural craze come from -- women/nurses/physicians/society/anesthesiologists? Louana The epidural craze came from women being offered the option and grabbing it. I remember the nitrous-twilight sleep era. The epidurals were greeted with GREAT enthusiasm by women. And that was even before they started letting the husbands (as opposed to "significant others") and other family in the labor room. Joe P. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what's free at AOL.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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