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It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied.

Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied. Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

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I second The Silent Knife. Lots of great books out there in going unassisted too! I tried my best to avoid a C-section, knew the “cascade of intervention” and still ended up with one. I even started off at home and transferred just for something minor. The system is incredibly broken and toxic. I will never enter it again if I can help it at all. My midwife is the one who convinced me to “just go in” after an incredibly long labor. I wish I would have said no. Next time around I plan to go unassisted or find a helper who isn’t fearful.

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