Some are saying that the inappropriately-high C-section rate is one reason:
Some researchers point to the rising C-section rate, now 29 percent of all births – far higher than what public health experts say is appropriate. Like other surgeries, Caesareans come with risks related to anesthesia, infections and blood clots.“There’s an inherent risk to C-sections,” said Dr. Elliott Main, who co-chairs a panel reviewing obstetrics care in California. “As you do thousands and thousands of them, there’s going to be a price.”
Another price of defensive medicine and personal injury lawyers.
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Dr. Kevin, what do you make of this? It seems to say that people are getting c-sections where there is no medical indication that they are needed, and that infant mortality is increasing as a result.
Kevin, do you think physicians will ever take responsibility for anything?
Who knows what to make of this. The jump is too small (1%) to know. It could be statistical artifact due to methodological changes. Seems like it will be spun by some as part of another anti-C-section message.
Dominic A. Carone, Ph.D.
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Ah yes… those horrible PI attorneys… the same ones the providers bed if there is some profiteering to be done while peddling some BS “temporal association” theory regarding “clinical causation.” The providers deserve every bit of the bite of the PI attorneys that they have foisted on the rest of society with their junk science causation theories.
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