Author: faithgibson
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Historic comments by physician about midwives ~ 1820 to 2014 ~ lost format & photos
Part 2 ~ List of Comments by Obstetricians about Midwives ~ 1820 to 2014 Editor’s Note ~ Sorry but this website was recently hacked. As a result the font size is unusually large and some texts and accompanying photos are in misplaced. Luckily, the context itself is intact and I hope to fixed the problem…
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Report in BMJ of biggest maternity scandel in recent UK history
Editor’s Choice A Highlight of the latest research, medical news, comment and education each week. {8 April 2022} Ignoring women’s experience led to the NHS’s biggest maternity scandal by Juliet Dobson, The BMJ The Ockenden review of maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust uncovered the biggest maternity scandal in the NHS’s history. The…
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AMA Scope of Practice Partnership – Its Hx & anti-homebirth, Ricky Lake bashing resolutions passed by its House of Delegates
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES (of the AMA) Limited Licensure Health Care Provider Training and Certification Standards Duane M. Cady, MD, Chair INTRODUCTION At the 2005 American Medical Association (AMA) Interim Meeting, the House of Delegates (HOD) adopted as amended Resolution 814 entitled “Limited Licensure Health Care Provider Training and Certification Standards.” Resolution…
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“Borrowed Servant/Captain-of-the-ship” ~ *The traditional hierarchical relationship btw OBs and Midwives
Easy-to-share Tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/y3g3v8vk Mandatory Physician Supervision & Mandatory Physician Referral: Two sides of the very same coin The name of that ‘coin’ is “borrowed servant/captain-of-the-ship”. For over a century the US legal system has described the relationship between medical doctors and non-MD assistants as one in which the doctor is identified as the “Captain…
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Directory to AB 1308 & Md Bd Rebuttal Documents, Materials & Citations
Work-N-Progress This post is a web “home” to provide midwives and childbirth activists with links to educational, scientific or political information useful to defending normal childbirth and the midwifery profession against the constant and self-serving campaign by organized medicine to used its status and economic resources to influence the public discourse in order to promote…
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Document archive – CCM Testimony MBC 2005, the Art & Science of Mfry, other mfry-related websites, correspondence, etc
Letter to MBC (2005) & CCM Testimony Opposing ACOG’s proposed Standard of Care for the practice of Licensed Midwifery in California by FAITHGIBSON on JULY 22, 2020 in AB1308, NEW REGS & NEW LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS, INFO ~ MEDICAL BOARD MEMBERS At the November 2019 Quarterly meeting of the California Medical Board of California as agenda item (11-B) was formally proposing…
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Excerpts ~ ACOG Committee Opinions 166 & 214 on “Informed Refusal” & the “Patient Autonomy: The Maternal-Fetal Relationship”
Opinion #166 ~ “Informed Refusal” ~ notes: Almost universally, informed consent laws have been liberalized … from the relatively paternalistic “professional or reasonable physician” standard to the “materiality of patient viewpoint” standard. … In the “patient viewpoint” standard, a physician must disclose … the risks and benefits that a reasonable person in the patient’s position would want to know in order…
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An Honorable Peace ~ Learning to “love the bomb” as Cb women, midwives and obstetricians eventually enjoy a ‘workable’ peace
Never forget: Our immediate goal for any legislation affecting healthy childbearing women and midwives is an “honest bill“. Our long-term goal is an “Honorable Peace” btw women (as mothers & midwives) and 21st-century obstetrics as a surgical specialty. Learning to ‘Love the Bomb’ while working for an ‘Honorable Peace’ with obstetrical medicine Unfortunately for midwives, becoming…
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Video Interviews by well-known birth activist Kathi Valeii of licensed midwife Faith Gibson
. . towards an honorable peace . . . . 1. Introduction & brief background of me and general ideas about these issues (7 mins): [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvvpdDKjGk[/embedyt] 2. Most relative to KillBill efforts of 2017 –>SB 457 (29 mins) [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991Ovq0pZGc[/embedyt] 3. About mfry licensing: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8HC3Sb9lE[/embedyt] 4. Kathi asks “How do we…
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Info about the CaLM’s Standard of care Development Website: part 3
Part 3 ~ In-depth information for the truly dedicated reader Reminder ~ The purpose of a professional standard of care is to: function as a reliable source of information & guidance for California licensed midwives provide information about the professional practice of community-based midwifery to interested parties, including the public, client families, legislative and regulatory bodies…