And that's the hard thing, I think, for modern obstetrics to get its head around. Modern obstetrics comes at birth from a problem solving, slightly masculine, patriarchal angle, if I might say. And what needs to be done is not like, what can we do to fix this problem?
And you think where we are now you think, actually, it's quite complicated, isn't it, to try and think how can we keep all those wonderful advances, those lifesaving advances of modern obstetrics , but somehow get back to the roots of birth and bring back more of that loving touch in birth where a woman is brought comfort and nurture with the backup, the medical backup, in the background?
What is an OB/GYN for anyone that doesn't know? An OB/GYN is a doctor who specializes in obstetrics , so delivering babies, and gynecology. So, your gynecologist has never been taught about the clitoris, about the vulva, about sexual health, about sexual pain, about libido,
And in a nutshell, it worked. We published the findings in the "Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology," and pain intensity fell. Pain duration fell. PMS, like bloating and water retention and moodiness, improved as well.
stained black from picking berries, seizing from organophosphate poisoning. And I saw an array of fetal malformations in their busy obstetrics ward that I hadn't seen during my previous training. And so there it was really the dark side of farming that I was exposed to.
Mina: : Dr. Turek is director of The Turek Clinic, a men's health clinic in San Francisco. He is a former professor of urology, obstetrics and gynecology at the UCSF and held the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Urology Education.
You don't want any patient with cholera to be able to enter the hospital. It's highly infectious. And we had pediatrics and obstetrics . We needed to keep all these vulnerable patients separate from the cholera patients.
And most people think of the Victorians as being uptight. That was what he spent most of his career doing, drugs for obstetrics .
And most people think of the Victorians as being uptight. He made something called methergine, which is still one of the most widely used drugs in obstetrics to prevent the death of women from post-partum hemorrhaging.
But what ended up happening was they started stripping even basic services from Riverton's Hospital in particular. So the doctor I profile, whose name is Roger Goes, got really upset because they eliminated the entire obstetrics wing department from Riverton's Hospital. So now all of a sudden, you could not deliver a baby in your home community.
Absolutely, and natural birth becomes more possible if we do less. And that's the hard thing, I think, for modern obstetrics to get its head around. Modern obstetrics comes at birth from a problem solving, slightly masculine, patriarchal angle, if I might say.
Any parent who stood at the birth of their child should have heard the Apgar technique being used. She really pioneered not only women in medicine in the United States, but also the field of anesthetic obstetrics . And one of the many features about her-- and again, shared by several of the women-- is the painstaking and continuous attention to detail