Disdain for doctors

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

Re: Disdain for doctors

There's also a lot of patients who push for sections under misguided reasons. Those patients prop up the section rate and make it seem like doctors are forcing them. DF has a classmate (in MED SCHOOL!!!!) who insists she will have a section when it's time because she doesn't want to "mess up her vagina" despite that fact that I pointed out that elective sections carry more risks than vaginal births. (I shake my head that this girl will be a doctor approximately once/week)

[Phoebe]

Re: Disdain for doctors

It makes me wonder if I have been lucky or if people refuse to give up old stereotypes.

Kelly

I think people like to hold on to the stereotypes. Right behind disdain for medicine as a whole comes disdain for OBs in general. I don't know a single OB that pushes unnecessary sections or induces for convenience (either that of the patient or themselves). I do know docs that have tried over and over to get some women to consent to a section as they watch the baby slip away on the monitor only to have the woman refuse. Most docs bend over backwards to accommodate the wishes of their patients (and boy are there some weird requests).

I have heard about this often, especially when many of the babies born under these circumstances end up in the NICU.