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Exploring Pagans and their relationship with that earthiest of earth symbols, money.
Shaping us from day one
A story by NPR looks at how profit impacts cesarean births. The study shed some light on how money impacts our lives from the very first breath we take.
As reported, researchers hypothesized that doctors may opt for a more lucrative C-section if the mother doesn't know any better, and to find out they compared birth mothers who were also doctors to those who weren't, and looked at how many in each category delivered their children naturally. Doctors, the researchers reasoned, would resist a surgical procedure that wasn't medically necessary more often than anyone with average knowledge.
Despite the fact that the physician-mothers received a C-section ten percent less often, the study does not suggest that doctors are consciously pushing for profitable procedures. Instead, its authors believe that the motivations are subconscious and subtle.
What is clear is that 1 out of 3 children are delivered by the scalpel in the United States today, and the reasons for altering our first rite of passage are not always based on medicine alone.
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Monday, 02 September 2013Reading the link to the NPR article, I got the impression that there were too many variables for the study to reach any definite conclusions - notwithstanding our natural assumptions about money motivations and varying education levels. It is inescapable, however, that our family's financial status will have an effect on us from birth.
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Wednesday, 04 September 2013
I agree that the causes were not entirely clear -- my take was that money is likely a factor, but not necessarily a conscious factor.
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Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Yes, I agree. Point well taken.
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Tuesday, 03 September 2013Doctors market their services like used car salesmen. They always try to SELL you as much "treatment" as you will buy. My father and his sisters were born at my grandmother's home. That was before the medical business convinced every women to pay huge sums of money for their services that are harmful as often as beneficial. If you break a bone they can help. Otherwise, stay as far away as you can manage.
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