Why do so many people think doctors do have all the right answers!?

Question

When it comes to pregnancy, which is a healthy, natural, physiological event, the practice of medicine is not the best approach UNLESS you have a medical issue.... Tell me why so many people write "if your doctor says so", or, have faith in your doctor", or "doctor knows best". Its time to consider Doctors cunsultants within medical expertise - and consult with them as such. Pregnancy is not, in and of itself, a medical event! Consult with a midwife- she knows birth is natural and can educate women about it- she can empower you to be your best practitioner!

MIDWIFE - EXACTLY, Change the Illness approach!!!

Thanks!

Answer 1

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS DO HAVE A PLACE IN OBSTETRICS
Yes midwives are fantastic empowering/supporting nurturing people, i know because i am one

Yes some doctors do make obstetrics complex and attempt to make normal abnormal
I have also seen midwives do the exact opposite try to make abnormal normal with bad results

I have been a midwife for 20 yrs worked in community midwifery, high risk birth units antenatal clinics, visiting midwifery service and also lectured in Maternofetal medicine and fetal assessment and seen some pretty shocking doctors and midwives as well as some bloody good ones

THE BEST APPROCH IS DUPLICITY
Midwifery led care with medical back up seems in my experience to be the best approach

2 minds working at the same process both with different views experiences, levels of education and (both supporting each other not battling it which can also be obstructive)

EDUCATE THEM YOUNG
We educate and teach our junior residents and registrars
Culture them in the Midwives way with a hope they will turn out holistic practitioners
We are trying to change the ILLNESS approach to obstetrics

NOW ALL WE NEED TO DO IS EDUCATE THE MOTHERS
the next step is to teach the mothers and familys that
pregnancy is a well healthy body condition
caesarian is not the best choice
induction causes a cascade of intervention
there is support out there if they need it

Answer 2

I would feel more comfortable going to see someone who has 15 years of college/medical school/residency, and specializes in delivering babies than I would with some one who took a class at the local community college or learned from her grandmother how to deliver babies.

So, so many things can go wrong during childbirth, and it made me very much at ease during my two pregnancies/deliveries to know that there was a trained professional there who had years of experience working with pregnancies/complicated deliveries. With my second child, he was born 2 weeks early via emergency c-section because of distress put on his heart during contractions. If I had spent the last 9 months going to a midwife, getting checked out and told everything was fine, lah dee dah, then had this problem...would she have performed my c-section on me and delivered my baby? NO...my obstetrician, a trained surgeon, SAVED MY BABY'S LIFE. Keep in mind, this pregnancy was textbook...no complications, no worried, very few complaints on my end, baby was doing well, so why should I have had to go to an MD? I should have chosen a midwife! WRONG.

I know of several people who had typical, "normal", NOT high risk pregnancies and went to see midwives. In two of these cases (I know three people total) these friends had to be rushed to the hospital and have their babies delivered by an MD for various reasons. So, in the end, it was the doctor, NOT the midwife, who saved these babies and their mothers.

If you're so against hospitals, and women have been delivering babies since the beginning of time, why don't you go out to a nice field somewhere and start picking cotton. When it's time to deliver your baby, just squat down (like they did in times past, and like they STILL do in some countries) and deliver your baby. You are, after all, your best practitioner, right? Isn't this the natural way to do things?

Answer 3

Amen! I agree with you. Not to mention that most midwives try to get to know you as a person, and are truly interested in your entire pregnancy and birthing experience. I have given birth both with drugs and without. The natural experience was so empowering. I hope other women would at least consider using a midwife.

Answer 4

I LOVE YOUR QUESTION!!!! In fact, I was going to ask it but you beat me to it! : )

In this day and age, doctors should be viewed with much suspect. Gosh, I could tell you stories about quacks that would make you sick...but I won't because then you'd need to see a doctor! Lol...a little humor there, sorry.

Doctors are whores to drug companies and also to their own egos. I know of a doctor that will schedule appointments and then at noon, he will sneak out the back door for lunch, leaving patients in the waiting room. Can you imagine? Slime!!! Many doctors are corrupt when it comes to treatments too. In my own experience I have found they'll schedule the most expensive, most invasive thing instead of doing something less expensive and less invasive first.

Oh, and did you see the case in Washington, about the baby being taken by the mother from a hospital because she didn't want the surgery for her son? The doctor called Child Protective Services to have her nabbed as a kidnapper! She even went to jail for a few days. I can't wait to hear what happens with that case, I hope she sues for so much, they'll fire that rotten quack.

Answer 5

Well.... they do call it PRACTICING medicine. The doctors are not God, but they do have a lot of knowledge. You can always go for more than 1 opinion and sometimes you should!

As far as midwifes - I am sure they are good too, but they are not doctors and are not as educated. Doctors and midwifes should work as a team to help new babies be born.

Answer 6

Your right, They do not know everything. But they do have a good grasp on stuff. They have the book knowledge and a good doctor has experience as knowledge. They can guide you as best they can but your body will do what it wants during pregnancy. But your doctor is more likely more experienced in pregnancies than you are! Think about how many successful pregnancies they have helped along the way! Good luck!

Answer 7

my daughter is 31 weeks pregnant with complications and still is not out of the woods.I am confident had I not "took charge" and took her to a major high risk women's hospital she may be dead.God the incompetence and apathy of local small town docs.I feel so sorry for those who don't know anything about medicine.How do you survive.You all really don't know what nurses do for patients.

Answer 8

If you was in college for over 10 years I would expect you to have the right answer too.

Answer 9

Because no one else can prove them wrong, unless one is a doctor too.

Answer 10

well its becasue doctors are well educated people. like who would you feel more confident is right some bum or a doctor with a PhD?