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This is a good example of how in the real world, everything is correlated with everything. Understanding this principle, I would expect uneven birth times and birth dates. I may not be able to guess what will cause it to be uneven (though in this particular case I would have gotten pretty close), or by how much it will deviate from uniformly random (I would have gotten this wrong to the low side), but it's sure to be…
How labor and delivery doctors treat women is criminal. A hospital should not be a butcher shop.
Have you ever actually been in a labor and delivery room with someone getting a c section? I was literally 3 days ago. And "butcher shop" is nowhere close to how I describe it.
Tl;Dr: ~30% of births are C-section, and hospitals prefer early morning operations.
And from anecdote, so should mothers. Early morning (~8AM) you get the A staff at their prime and are often the first case so it is usually timely. The worst time is 6:30AM (or whenever half an hour before changeover is). You either get C staff and/or people who have been awake for 24 hours. The surgeon probably called that time so they could book night rates.
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The contrast to "the US hospital business" is not necessarily "socialized systems". A better contrast is, as the original commenter pointed out, birthing centers (or home births). A contrast to a hospital OBGYN in the US is a certified nurse midwife.
Even midwife systems often end up with a "ball of midwives" where you may not even know who you're going to get, and then they go off the clock at 6 PM and someone new steps in. Everything is a cost/benefit/availability tradeoff, and time is just one of the many variables that are being juggled. Of course, if you have money to throw at the problem you can reduce the other issues.
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File a grievance with a regulatory body.
That's fucking hilarious. I filed a grievance when the medical professionals performed care on me against my (fully conscious and alert) consent, without a warrant, and without a court order nor arrest -- at the direction of a federal officer who had me "detained" but not "arrested" because there was no probable cause of a crime. I wrote an incredibly detailed, 100 page report with several witnesses painstakingly des…
This is a good example of how in the real world, everything is correlated with everything. Understanding this principle, I would expect uneven birth times and birth dates. I may not be able to guess what will cause it to be uneven (though in this particular case I would have gotten pretty close), or by how much it will deviate from uniformly random (I would have gotten this wrong to the low side), but it's sure to be…
I don’t know much of anything about the other people in the OR, if the assistants stick to a particular group of surgeons or float. The people handling tools and gauze pads (which sounds like a dumb job but someone has to be sure that 12 pads and a clamp went into your abdomen and exactly that number came back out at the end), clamps, retraction, suction, IV and gas monitoring, etc etc. Those are somewhat specialized to the task but I don’t know if they are specialized to a surgical unit or if the same people who help with a appendectomy also assist with a finger reattachment or spinal surgery. If they do a surgery could get bumped for scheduling conflicts, or shift changes.
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Have you ever actually been in a labor and delivery room with someone getting a c section? I was literally 3 days ago. And "butcher shop" is nowhere close to how I describe it.
Yes I have two kids one of which was delivered by c-section.
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Even midwife systems often end up with a "ball of midwives" where you may not even know who you're going to get, and then they go off the clock at 6 PM and someone new steps in. Everything is a cost/benefit/availability tradeoff, and time is just one of the many variables that are being juggled. Of course, if you have money to throw at the problem you can reduce the other issues.
As far as I'm aware, the majority of US midwives (or CPM's) are not hospital nurse midwives. They do not go off-the-clock, though they sometimes have multiple patients due at the same time so you might still find a backup midwife is covering for your primary care provider.
I can see the advantages to the ball but the first was overall better I feel (but there are so many variables it's hard to really tell). We've technically never had the doctor/midwife "assigned" on-hand during the actual delivery for various reasons.
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Yes I have two kids one of which was delivered by c-section.
The fact that epiderals aren't literally always done for women still shocks me.
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Have you ever actually been in a labor and delivery room with someone getting a c section? I was literally 3 days ago. And "butcher shop" is nowhere close to how I describe it.
Yes I have two kids one of which was delivered by c-section.