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"If you happen to live in a region where there are lots of aggressive gynecologists and obstetricians who are performing too many hysterectomies and c-sections, or where physicians are admitting patients to the intensive care unit unnecessarily or sending them for unneeded CT scans, you risk being subjected to the dangers of too much medicine. "Nothing has changed since our Science paper in 1973," says Wennberg. Nothing, of course, except the fact that American medicine has swelled into a behemoth industry equal in size to the entire economy of Italy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"I delivered more than a hundred babies and performed dozens of c-sections and thoroughly loved my work, but I was still restless. I had a professor in medical school from New Zealand, and I remembered how he had meticulously listened to the heart only after carefully considering the shape of the fingers and the quality of the hair and skin, all signs of how the blood from the heart was truly acting. That particular piece of my medical school training left a lasting impression." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Statistically associated with gestational diabetes is an increase in preeclampsia and resulting increased c-sections. A study by Coustan and Associates showed that 6 percent were tested with irregular glucose tolerance at zero to two years post-partum; 13 percent were irregular at three to four years; 15 percent at five to six years; and 30 percent at seven to ten years post-partum.132 Other studies have documented Type-2 diabetes at three to five years post-partum in 30 to 50 percent of the women." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"C-sections had no documented abnormalities on the birth certificate to justify the procedure.9 Most medical scientists estimate that between half and two-thirds of all Cesareans are needless. Two British researchers suggest that a rate of 6 to 8% would be medically indicated, which would save 20,000 surgeries in the United Kingdom and 470,000 in the United States.10 "It is reasonable to conclude, says health policy analyst Carol Sakala, "that a largely uncontrolled international pandemic of medically unnecessary Cesarean births is occurring." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "ORGAN TRANSPLANTS Some 24,000 major organs are surgically transplanted in the United States per annum, which are about 3% the number of c-sections. Why consider them here? Because organ transplants capture the essence of heroic surgery: highly trained surgical teams, the very latest technology (along with huge costs), and, ultimately, the patient's life or death. Of all major organ transplants, we consider those for heart, perhaps the most dramatic of all, and those for kidney, the most common of all." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "We should add to this total of unnecessary gynecological surgeries the episiotomy (incision in the birth canal prior to delivery), done more often than either c-sections or hysterectomies. Of these almost one million episiotomies per year: There is little scientific support... for rhis procedure. The suggested advantages of episiotomy are challenged easily and the surgery is not without risks. Adverse effects... include an increased incidence of severe lacerations, blood loss, pain, delayed healing, dyspareunia [pain during sexual intercourse], psychological trauma and medical cost." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In fact," according to the same article, the rate of c-sections "could be lowered without an increase in infant mortality."12 Hysterectomies. In 2000, some 633,000 hysterectomies were performed in the United States. The rate, which has not changed recently, is double that of most Western European countries. The most common presenting symptom for a hysterectomy is severe menstrual bleeding. Complications from surgery are common: half of all women develop postsurgical kidney or bladder infections, some of which require additional surgery." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Of interest, the number of elective c-sections has risen in recent years; this number now constitutes approximately 2.5 percent of all births, including a significant increase in first-time mothers (Health-Grades, 2005). In short, there has been resistance to medicalized childbirth, but the overall medicalization of childbirth is still predominant and may be increasing in some quarters.1 There have long been pockets of resistance to medicalized disorders like ADHD, including parents' groups and some activist organizations." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"If you happen to live in a region where there are lots of aggressive gynecologists and obstetricians who are performing too many hysterectomies and c-sections, or where physicians are admitting patients to the intensive care unit unnecessarily or sending them for unneeded CT scans, you risk being subjected to the dangers of too much medicine. "Nothing has changed since our Science paper in 1973," says Wennberg. Nothing, of course, except the fact that American medicine has swelled into a behemoth industry equal in size to the entire economy of Italy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"C-sections, when performed for reasons other than the baby's health, increase the risk of the baby being born in poor condition or having trouble breathing." c-sections also lead to lower rates of breast-feeding and increase by 30 times the need for emergency hysterectomy due to post-operative bleeding.69 In the early 1970s, only 3% of births were by c-sections, according to the World Health Organization, which states that the rate should be no higher than 10% in any developed country.70 Contrary to popular belief, it is possible for a woman to have a vaginal birth after a cesarean." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.) "The surgery itself increases the risk of maternal death, hemorrhage, surgical injury to other organs, infection, blood clots, and rehospitalization for complications caused by the procedure. c-sections, when performed for reasons other than the baby's health, increase the risk of the baby being born in poor condition or having trouble breathing." c-sections also lead to lower rates of breast-feeding and increase by 30 times the need for emergency hysterectomy due to post-operative bleeding." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.) "Compared with vaginal birth, c-sections tend to cause greater pain and debility, sometimes for months," Allen says. "The surgery itself increases the risk of maternal death, hemorrhage, surgical injury to other organs, infection, blood clots, and rehospitalization for complications caused by the procedure. c-sections, when performed for reasons other than the baby's health, increase the risk of the baby being born in poor condition or having trouble breathing." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Public Citizen, which puts out a regular report on the rate of c-sections, believes the surgery is done almost twice as often as medically indicated, at a cost of an extra $1.3 billion and unnecessary pain and injury. Like hysterectomy, the rate of c-sections varies geographically, which of course makes no medical sense. The highest rates are in the South and at large for-profit hospitals, where a buck is overappreciated. The worst states are Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, cind also Washington, D.C." - Martin L. Cross, The Medical Racket (Get the book.) "So are many of the 920,000 c-sections unnecessary? Absolutely. In fact, a great many are. Some have even referred to the modern rash of cesareans as a "surgical epidemic." Calling on understatement, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists admits that c-sections "are more common than they should be." An actual estimate, made by the Centers for Disease Control, says that 349,000 of the cesarean surgeries were unnecessary. This is a serious situation." - Martin L. Cross, The Medical Racket (Get the book.) "Although c-sections are ostensibly done by doctors to reduce the risk of malpractice, they can also result in stimulating malpractice suits from injured women, as in our earlier anecdote. Unnecessary Hack Surgery Unnecessary surgery waxes and wanes. First one operation, like tonsillectomy, is in fashion, then another, like c-sections. The most recent "in" technique is "back surgery." The problem of low back pain is one that perplexes the medical establishment, which has yet to find an answer." - Martin L. Cross, The Medical Racket (Get the book.)

"She notes, however, that c-sections are sometimes performed for other reasons than the well-being of the mother or fetus, such as avoidance of patient pain, convenience factors, and legal concerns of the hospital or physician ("defensive medicine"), and that cesarean rates are also higher for women who have private medical insurance and for women who are private, rather than public, clinic patients. "Compared with vaginal birth, c-sections tend to cause greater pain and debility, sometimes for months," Allen says. " - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

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