even if they are surrounded by others who go along with their standards for money!
Just reading about a time in the DISTANT PAST when some doctors were making a hundred dollar bet on who could perform a Caesarean on two different women the fastest (because the mothers' deliveries weren't progressing fast enough to suit the time tables set by the doctors.)
"I couldn't believe this was happening. this was just about as bad as the time I witnessed one of the Stanford OBs give a woman an episiotomy after she delivered, so as not to deprive her husband of the pleasure of a tightened up vagina."
~ L. Mehl-Madrona, Coyote Medicine pg 169-170
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/365974.Coyote_Medicine
Apparently, such behavior from the most highly educated was excused:
"'Seventeen minutes!' proclaimed the timekeeper. 'It's a new record for a Cesarean.'"
"'That should be good enough to beat Poirot!' Jason said gleefully. And it was...Jason sat at least another seventeen minutes in front of his locker, bragging to anyone who would listen about his new record, counting and recounting his twenties. He speculated that his new record might be a standard that would last 'as long as the game is played. I'm the Babe Ruth of obstetrics," he crowed, 'the Mickey Mantle of the OR.'"
~ L. Mehl-Madrona, Coyote Medicine, page 171 - 172).
WOW. ONE MIGHT EVEN TAKE A MOMENT TO HOPE THAT ALL THE DOCTORS WHO ARE IN THIS COUNTRY ATTENDING TO PREGNANT WOMEN POST ROE V. WADE ARE A LOT MORE CONSIDERATE THESE DAYS AND DON'T EVER ACT LIKE THEY DID.
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