Because if you inject a female African clawed frog with the urine of a woman who's pregnant, she will lay eggs within a couple hours. So obstetricians actually used to have tanks these frogs in their office. And a lot of them were let go.
Earl on, when you're describing this course. And I went and I found basically the only obstetricians that were in the right combination of brilliant visionary status
Earl on, when you're describing this course. Said well it's the only time of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convention in Vegas.
And they're telling these amazing stories. So like I learned that Dolly Parton, that her father paid the obstetrician in cornmeal when she was born. Can you dig that?
So think about how am I going-- you only produce oxytocin in an environment where you feel safe, uninterrupted, undisturbed. Well, because one thing that you-- that we absolutely aren't is that doctors and obstetricians are unnecessary.
So this is the regular pattern. Now, imagine if you're living in rural North Dakota, and the nearest obstetrician that you have is maybe 100 miles away in Fargo, right? In fact, 35% of US counties today are what are called maternity deserts, where they don't have access to maternity care.
Because that's what we've lost. As we've come through history, we see women being put on the bed on their backs to make it more easier for the obstetrician , or the doctor, to see or to use the forceps.
So, I, myself, thought, "Oh, I can't. I can't. OK, that with Dr. Amos Grunebaum, good friend of mine, Chief at Cornell Medical Center, gynecologist and obstetrician ." What he put on Page 61, when I read that because he did some of the stories from his office.
But as you could see with Janet, even though she didn't live so, so far away, I mean it's still miles away from a road and miles away from the hospital that she had to go to. In Guatemala, we ended up -- through Planned Parenthood, we found an obstetrician who was just so remarkable that we actually picked the country because of her. I wanted to look at a country that had a high indigenous population because those women that are the most disenfranchised in a society. And so we picked it because it was surrounded by very, very conservative
on that prevention piece and how to empower girls to protect their own bodies is a critical piece. But then the health care worker piece is also really important. We will never have enough doctors to fulfill the burden of most global health issues. And as you heard our obstetrician in Tanzania say, he was the only OB for 2.5 million people. Well 2.5 million people were not seeking care from a doctor because they don't even think about seeing a doctor in