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Epidurals are a miracle technology

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Re: Epidurals are a miracle technology

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly surgeons should be paid hourly like technicians. $800/hr or something like that. For a 2 hour procedure, $1600. Another $5k for facility and support staff. Looks like medicare is on point...

Medicare for all fixes a lot of the problems with the US health system!

Would fix.

Re: Epidurals are a miracle technology

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It was surprising to see incidence of death by cesarean is almost 13 per 100k. It is commonly thought as the safest way and half of all births in my country are via cesarean.

In what country do you live? I've had children in two European countries, in both it was common knowledge that natural birth is safer then cesarean and doctors/hospital strongly prefer it.

Poland. Both children my sister had were cesarean.

There were no complications at all, but both were as the doc put it "large" so my sister was given a choice.

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