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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: "traditional" medicine
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 00:03:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 00:03:48 1985
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There seems to be a lot of stuff getting kicked around about Western medicine
vs. non-Western medicine. While I owe my life to Western medicine (I'm
diabetic, juvenile Type I, and need insulin (a special diet isn't enough-- my
body makes NO insulin at all), there is one area where what has happenned in
Western medicine is absolutely shameless. This is the area of obstetrics,
which treats a pregnant/in labor woman like a "sick" person, when she is
really just going through a normal process. I'll refer you all to "The New
Our Bodies, Ourselves" for more information...