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More data on revamped online obstetrics guide | Richmond Times-Dispatch by Jodi K. Posted Tue 22 Sep 2009 12:00am can find that information in a revamped obstetrics guide from Virginia Health Information. The expanded Web-based guide lets users enter a ZIP code and view details about... hospital charges for vaginal and cesarean births by doctor and hospital. Women also can check, for instance, whether a hospital has nurse midwives or features such as birthing balls Read on »

Chapter 2: Tribal Obstetrics Part #1 by Danielle Elwood Posted Thu 27 Aug 2009 11:38pm for this decade of scientifically unjustified practice, nor compassion for the women who suffered uterine rupture or lost their babies -- No apologies, no sense whatsoever of obstetric...? So we move on. Wagner's inside view of the Obstetric community is downright scary, things that people have said and confided in him, and here he is publishing it for the whole Read on »

light diet and obstetric labour by Martin Eastwood Posted Wed 24 Jun 2009 2:05pm et al 2009 Effect of food intake during labour on obstetric outcome: randomised controlled trial BMJ vol 338 p 880 Editorial BMJ 2009 Eating a light diet during labour BMJ Read on »

Loss of obstetric services forces NY patients elsewhere by Vantage Clinical Solutions Physical Therapist

Posted Tue 04 Aug 2009 5:51pm elsewhere to deliver babies, and that’s very unfortunate.” via Hamilton hospital to close down its obstetric services - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch. Read on »

Where Physician Completed Obstetrical Residency May Provide Quality of Care Indicator by Marie L. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 24 Sep 2009 10:09pm ) Newswise — A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates’ patients found these rankings consistent across Read on »

Obstetrics for cardiologists ! by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 12 Aug 2010 9:41am hemodynamic stress of pregnancy and the intricacies of obstetrical anesthesia Read on »

Designer Obstetrics: Cesarean Section on Demand by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 01 Feb 2010 1:36pm Should women be able to request a cesarean section to deliver their baby just because they can? Cesarean Section on demand is defined as a primary or first cesarean section at the request of the mother in the absence of any medical or obstetrical indication. A cesarean section is usually done for maternal or fetal reasons in accordance Read on »

Born in the USA : Chapter 2 : Tribal Obstetrics : Part 2 by Danielle Elwood Posted Thu 27 Aug 2009 11:38pm the "book review" posts. "Some countries, such as the Netherlands, are considering a new system that would make gynecology and obstetrics two separate specialties. Gynecologist... old debate on Hospital birth Vs. Home birth. "This irresponsible talk of safety is misleading, most importantly, to women and their families. If the obstetric tribe says Read on »

More obstetric horror stories in Africa by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 10:28pm Today's NYT carries a story about a heroic Dutch surgeon, Dr. Kees Waaldijk, who is working to help women in Africa recover from obstetric fistulas. With few resources and little help, he estimates he's done 15,000 fistula repair operations over the past 22 years. An obstetric fistula is what can happen when labor is unsuccessful and there's Read on »

MENTAL HEALTH NURSING – A FIELD OF ITS OWN by Stephanie S. Jewett Posted Fri 05 Feb 2010 12:00am Feb 05 Ten years ago I practiced as a registered nurse in the field of in-patient and outpatient... health nursing can be in a hospital setting, such as I was, mental health centers, jails, home health agencies, the military, addiction facilities, community mental health Read on »