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Blaming Aristotle: The doctor and 'failure of his art'
Pregnant women: For simple instructions on how to allow your birth canal to
open an "extra" up to 30%, see the very end of this post. BLAMING ARISTOTLE: THE DOCTOR AND "FAILURE OF HIS ART"... "[T]he doctor in the graeco-Roman world...shunned death as a failure of his art. Sometimes [though] a doctor was called in to assist in voluntary death, a role that was not forbidden by the Hippocratic oath. An appeal to this oath by opponents of euthanasia in the modern sense of the word therefore is mistaken." --Prof. Anton J. Van Hoof. Soc Sci Med. 2004 Mar;58(5):975-85. PubMed abstract OPEN LETTER Prof. Anton J. Van Hoof Department of Ancient History Nijmegen University Erasmusplein 1, room 10.05, NL-6525HT Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Anton, You say, the ancient doctor "shunned death as a failure of his art" and occasionally assisted in "voluntary death." When *we* are history - ancient history - people will read: The ancient doctor shunned the failure of his art and as a consequence occasionally assisted in INvoluntary death. Ancient doctors knowingly closed birth canals up to 30%. Most babies "only" had their spines gruesomely wrenched, but some babies died - some were paralyzed. Ancient doctors shunned ADMITTING the failure of their art - they failed to stop closing birth canals up to 30%. Ancient doctors reportedly got their birth-canal-closing habit from previous ancients... The French doctor Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709) apparently plagiarized the idea of semisitting delivery (closing the birth canal) from Aristotle. [Dunn PM. Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709) and maternal posture for parturition. Arch Dis Child 1991;66:78-9.] Anton, let us not wait until we are ancient history to stop this grisly obstetric tomfoolery. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo PS PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%... That semisitting and dorsal close the birth canal is simple biomechanics. See Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth 1992;19(4):230. The 30% figure comes from the medical literature... Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal Institute/WMPI states the grisly biomechanics of the semirecumbent delivery position (semisitting): "...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of the pelvic outlet..." http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing the birth canal) - or used to! "The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..." http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not before two of my posts were archived thereon: http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody squatted... See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084 MORE PROOF According to the Merck Manual: "When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..." http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the head is out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet diameter? WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%? WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders get stuck? (Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site (quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts if the shoulders get stuck... http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm) LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS... OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") - surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%! See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of Medicine http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256 WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their text. The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic diameters *don't change* at delivery! ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter change! For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc. BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!) --Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839] Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative" delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close your birth canal!) as you push your baby out! If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth canal closed! Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes: "In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839) Lithotomy position keeps the birth canal closed! So does semisitting! Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see "Criminal medical CAM," URL above.) CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first get the woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt. SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc. But BEWARE... Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative" delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close your birth canal!) as you push your baby out! If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth canal closed! See above. Thanks for reading everyone. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo |
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