We all know the story of the Titanic, at least everyone who has seen the movie – which I think is everyone. The boat carried 2,224 […]
When Did Breastfeeding Become a Disease?
The practice of breastfeeding is as old as, well, mankind. Few functions could be considered more natural, and few biologic functions work as well. It […]
From One Extreme to the Other…
I hear an awful lot about swinging pendulums. As medicine, politics, or almost anything goes from one extreme to the other, we are told that […]
OB Potpourri 3.0
Stop Putting Q-Tips in Women’s Urethras This 2016 study by Meyer et al. compared placing a swab in the vagina instead of placing it in […]
Dreams of a Better World…
Imagine living in a different world, a world where our children are not pumped full of dangerous toxins and chemicals at the doctor’s office; a […]
Appeal to Experience, or Insight versus Awareness
A common fallacy we all make is the appeal to accomplishment. This occurs when we claim that an opinion or idea is invalid because the […]
Oh my …. Really?
It’s ironic that a journal that’s supposed to combat high blood pressure is doing its best to raise mine with this click bait. A study […]
An Air of Legitimacy, A Hindrance to Progress
In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote his famous essay, As We May Think. Bush had risen to the level of Director of the US Office of Scientific Research […]
Is Hydration Useful for the Management of Oligohydramnios? Or Should We Even Care?
This is an excellent clinical question, and the type of question that a clinician encounters almost daily. How should we determine the answer to the […]
Prevailing Bias
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and finding a world you don’t know. Everything isn’t as it should be. Things that should be good are now […]