{"id":195684,"date":"2008-06-21T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/21\/the-ama-part-of-the-problem-not-part-of-the-solution\/"},"modified":"2008-06-21T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T14:38:00","slug":"the-ama-part-of-the-problem-not-part-of-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/21\/the-ama-part-of-the-problem-not-part-of-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The AMA:  Part of the Problem, Not Part of the Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the American Medical Association just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/bad-medicine-ama-seeks-to-outlaw-home-births\">voted to lobby to outlaw home births<\/a>, because midwives are taking too much of OB\/GYN&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>I would never have used a midwife or done home delivery with my wife, and if she had wanted it, I would have done everything in my power to make her go to a hospital instead, because she is a poster child for major birthing complications.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">our<\/span> choice.  It&#8217;s not a profit center for doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the American Medical Association just voted to lobby to outlaw home births, because midwives are taking too much of OB\/GYN&#8217;s business. I would never have used a midwife or done home delivery with my wife, and if she had wanted it, I would have done everything in my power to make her go to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,1074],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}