Medicine Books

Book Features

• Author: Marsden Wagner
• Language: English
• ISBN10: 0520245962

Book Overview

>>>In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the nation, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care program, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and babies. Written for mothers and fathers, obstetricians, nurses, midwives, scientists, insurance professionals, and anyone contemplating getting a child, this passionate exposé documents how, in the most costly maternity care system in the globe, females have lost manage more than childbirth and what the disturbing final results of this phenomenon have been. Born in the USA examines troubles which includes midwifery and the safety of out-of-hospital birth, how the procedure of becoming a doctor can adversely have an effect on both practitioners and their patients, and why there has been a rise in the use of risky but physician-friendly interventions, such as the use of Cytotec, a drug that has not been approved by the FDA for pregnant females. Most importantly, this gripping investigation, supported by numerous troubling private stories, explores how girls can reclaim the childbirth encounter for the betterment of themselves and their children.
Born in the USA tells:
* Why women are 70% more likely to die in childbirth in America than in Europe
* What motivates obstetricians to use unsafe and unnecessary drugs and procedures
* How the present malpractice crisis has been aggravated by the fear of accountability
* Why procedures such as cesarean section and birth inductions are so readily utilized…