Comments on: An early C-section risks infant complications http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/early-c-section-risks-infant.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/early-c-section-risks-infant.html/comment-page-1#comment-89114 Anonymous Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/an-early-c-section-risks-infant-complications.html#comment-89114 "40 percent of elective Caesarean deliveries are repeat procedures, and this number is sure to go up as the rate of initial C-sections rises due to malpractice fears"<br/><br/>Kevin, why do make up this cr--p? <br/><br/>There is no evidence that defensive medicine increases C-section rates. Indeed, there is good evidence that they are not related. See Beomsoo Kim, The Impact of Malpractice Risk on the Use of Obstetrics Procedures, The Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 36 (June 2007)(finding no increase between C-section rate and increased likelihood of being suied).<br/><br/>btw, Kim's an economist, not a lawyer “40 percent of elective Caesarean deliveries are repeat procedures, and this number is sure to go up as the rate of initial C-sections rises due to malpractice fears”

Kevin, why do make up this cr–p?

There is no evidence that defensive medicine increases C-section rates. Indeed, there is good evidence that they are not related. See Beomsoo Kim, The Impact of Malpractice Risk on the Use of Obstetrics Procedures, The Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 36 (June 2007)(finding no increase between C-section rate and increased likelihood of being suied).

btw, Kim’s an economist, not a lawyer

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/early-c-section-risks-infant.html/comment-page-1#comment-89112 Anonymous Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/an-early-c-section-risks-infant-complications.html#comment-89112 we do get paid the same for c/s versus vaginal, at least I do so there is no desire to do c/s if you don't have to because they are in the hospital more days for more days of rounding which is uncompensated or included in the delivery.<br/><br/>so i don't think people just do c/s for ease that much but it's hard to tell a patient who states she absolutely wants a c/s that she can't have one, just like if a person walks into the pcps office and says for the 100th time that he has chest pain, are you going to not do an EKG this time? we do get paid the same for c/s versus vaginal, at least I do so there is no desire to do c/s if you don’t have to because they are in the hospital more days for more days of rounding which is uncompensated or included in the delivery.

so i don’t think people just do c/s for ease that much but it’s hard to tell a patient who states she absolutely wants a c/s that she can’t have one, just like if a person walks into the pcps office and says for the 100th time that he has chest pain, are you going to not do an EKG this time?

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