Here's a hint

[docorion]

To physicians organizations: when your spokesperson speaks, see that they don't sound like a dickQuoth the spokesdroid for the NY chapter of ACOG, the American College of OB/GYN: "What obstetrician who has never seen the patient, doesn’t know the midwife, and happens to be at home at their son’s baseball game is going to say, ‘Sure, I’ll come in

Comments

[mzrowan]

Yeah, that quote had my jaw on the floor. Seriously? You seriously just said that a doctor would ignore a woman with life-threatening hemorrhaging? And this is going to help your case how, exactly?

[hrafn]

Wow.

If that's assumed to be the default attitude - and I guess the spokesdroid does - *speechless*

[nex0s]

TOTALLY.

When *I* needed a D&C after my homebirth, the doctor on call did it. My midwife took me to a hospital where they knew her because she knew I would not be treated badly for choosing to birth at home. As it was, there was one nurse who was an *absolute unprofessional BITCH* and refused to check me in (I was stabilized, but WTF?) but everyone else was nice. And the doctor who did my D&C was lovely, and the attending nurse was even lovelier