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“ Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it. ”

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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

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Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

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Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

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The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

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