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#70134
05/22/2002 2:08 AM
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addict
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Did I start that? Could it have been avoided if I wrote...
"A male obstetrician is like a mechanic without a car." - One of my (female) O&G consultants, joking.
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#70135
05/22/2002 2:17 AM
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Joined: Jan 2001
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear dpc_comfort: You did nothing wrong. But I managed to sound like a male chauvinist to of troy, and that's what (her phrase, not mine) "got her Irish up." I confessed my sins, and she forgave me.
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#70136
05/22/2002 6:54 AM
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Joined: Mar 2002
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newbie
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Well I just thought I'd throw my hat into the caesarian ring!
Here's a little gem of trivia: The first successful documented C-section on a living woman was performed in 1500 by neither a doctor or a nurse, but a gelder - a castrater of animals! This was in Germany, where a gelder called Jacob Nufer "operated" on his own wife after none of the district surgeons or midwives could help her with a very difficult birth. The pseudo-veterinary angle of this story impresses me!
Frau Nufer survived and went on to deliver more children "naturally".
Mind you - this must have been sheer luck, as the mortality rate of the mother after a Caesar remained horrendous for centuries - still as high as 86% - 100% in England in the mid 1800s!
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