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Physician & Social Entrepreneur, Executive Director of Costs of Care
Director, Obstetrical Clinical Research and Quality Assurance at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
Professor, Chair OBGYN, Emeritus Vice Dean GME at Reading Hospital and Medical Center
Obstetrician Gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Director of Digital Health, Brain Power.
CMIO of Whittier IPA, Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the AMA, Past President of the MMS
Ob/Gyn Physician, Health Tech Writer/Speaker/Advisor
Residency Program Director at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
President at Pregnancy Institute
Pediatrician, Neonatal (NICU) hospitalist, Medical Biochemical Geneticist, Clinical Geneticist, Co-Director of Pediatric Integrative Medicine (PIM) Residency program, Stanford Children's Hospital & Stanford University, California, USA
Resident Physician at Drexel University College of Medicine/ Hahnemann University Hospital
UAB Medical Scientist Training Program
Obstetrician, Mayo Clinic
Engaged in many different avenues relating to the betterment of women’s health.
Professor Ob-Gyn at University of Puerto Rico
Chief of Obstetrics at Brigham Health
ObGyn at UPR Hospital Dr. FedericoTrilla
Resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
4th Year Harvard Medical Student
M3 OUWB School of Medicine, AMWA National Student Treasurer
For generations, both British and American mothers have assumed that the safest way to give birth is to spend many hours, if not days, in a hospital bed under the supervision of an obstetrician. Now, new guidelines are challenging these deeply held beliefs.
After completing an evidence-based review, the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded that healthy women with straightforward pregnancies are safer giving birth at home or in a midwife-led unit than in a hospital under the supervision of an obstetrician.1 Across the pond, eyebrows went up. The New York Times editorial board (and others) wondered, “Are midwives safer than doctors?”2 How can homes be safer than hospitals? And what implications will the British guidelines have for the United States?
As a U.S.-trained obstetrician, I have little doubt that the United States offers outstanding care for medically complicated pregnancies. But there are lessons to be learned from the British system. The majority of women with straightforward pregnancies may truly be better off in the United Kingdom.
Physician & Social Entrepreneur, Executive Director of Costs of Care
Director, Obstetrical Clinical Research and Quality Assurance at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
Professor, Chair OBGYN, Emeritus Vice Dean GME at Reading Hospital and Medical Center
Obstetrician Gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Director of Digital Health, Brain Power.
CMIO of Whittier IPA, Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the AMA, Past President of the MMS
Ob/Gyn Physician, Health Tech Writer/Speaker/Advisor
Residency Program Director at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
President at Pregnancy Institute
Pediatrician, Neonatal (NICU) hospitalist, Medical Biochemical Geneticist, Clinical Geneticist, Co-Director of Pediatric Integrative Medicine (PIM) Residency program, Stanford Children's Hospital & Stanford University, California, USA
Resident Physician at Drexel University College of Medicine/ Hahnemann University Hospital
UAB Medical Scientist Training Program
Obstetrician, Mayo Clinic
Engaged in many different avenues relating to the betterment of women’s health.
Professor Ob-Gyn at University of Puerto Rico
Chief of Obstetrics at Brigham Health
ObGyn at UPR Hospital Dr. FedericoTrilla
Resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
4th Year Harvard Medical Student
M3 OUWB School of Medicine, AMWA National Student Treasurer