A study links intracranial bleeding and vaginal births: Are lawyers salivating?

A small study that connects the two. Some feel this may help doctors with liability:

Dr. William Blessed, director of maternal-fetal medicine at Providence Hospital and Medical Center, in Southfield, Mich., thinks the information from this study may help doctors with liability issues. “In the past, people always thought if there was a hemorrhage, the doctor must have done something wrong. Now, you see you can have intracranial hemorrhage without [cause]; it can occur in a normal birth.”

Uh, who the hell is he kidding? Why wouldn’t lawyers point to studies like this and say that the physician should have done a C-section instead?

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