Category: Legislation ~ AB 1308, any new bills
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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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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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Information ~ CaLM’s Standard-of-Care Development Website: part 1
Intro, Overview & Grand Vision: Our Standard-of-Care is also our most public face A standard of care is like a professional Constitution & Bill-of-Rights all rolled into one. As published online, this document is the single most important source of public information about the principles and professional practice midwifery available to childbearing families, journalists, reporters,…