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Re: FRI tooling for OB From: DoctorJoe@aol.com Tue Apr 28 23:20:20 2009 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Re: GDM A2" Previous message: Charlie Chambers: "Re: tooling for OB" In a message dated 4/28/09 10:34:14 PM, ricechaz@me.com writes: > Weirdest thing is all the entities that are chiming in about  > this who don't do breech deliveries or don't do obstetrics at all. But  > then again, I guess that's like the rest of medicine these days.  > Lawyers, accountants, and CEO's deciding to tell us what to do. > Okay I guess it's a good time to revisit my true-life adventure. When I was a resident, we were running a study out of our OB clinic and one of the study nurses was pregnant. After we saw the last patient, the nurse asked us whether we could tell if her baby, about 22-24 weeks or so, was "still breech." We put her up on one of the exam tables and did a little Leopolding around and told her that the baby felt vertex, but it could move around at this point and nothing was definitive until she got closer to term. We then asked her why she wanted to know. She said she was worried if the baby were breech at delivery and asked about the risks of vaginal breech delivery versus c-section. Well, we gave her the party line at the time -- probably no difference for the most part, but if the baby delivered breech and the head got stuck, say, then maybe the baby would lose a few IQ points or whatever. But then, instead of being a doctor, maybe he'd "only" be a lawyer. Usually, nobody would know the difference and nobody would care. Well, she broke into laughter. We asked her why, of course. She told us that she and her husband had an ongoing discussion about vaginal breech delivery. He INSISTED that there was nothing wrong with vaginal breech delivery and by the way, HE was a breech delivered vaginally and he turned out JUST FINE! End of story! Of course, were were interested -- we asked what he did for a living. She laughed again and told us ... he was a LAWYER. I rest my case. Joe P. web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) Next message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Re: GDM A2" Previous message: Charlie Chambers: "Re: tooling for OB"

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