Do you feel regulating a profession automatically makes it safer? That question has been bogging me down since Delaware Senator Bethany Hall-Long made that assumption on the senate floor the other night. It made me think of times when I get my hair cut by an unlicensed hairdresser (yes, they license that profession here) and had great outcomes! It also made me think of the bad outcomes we often speak of from nurses and doctors in terms of childbirth especially. Let's get this out of the way now: Yes. There are marvelous doctors out there. But there are not so great doctors, also. The bottom line here is that any profession, at any regulation level, can encounter bad outcomes. We feel it so much here on this blog. Medical staff, midwives sometimes even, who lost all respect for their patient and the physiologic nature of childbirth and choose force, coercion or other forms of abuse instead of respect, dignity and allowing the mom to make her own healthcare decisions. So I ask you to think about this with me. Does the idea of having a profession regulated automatically make that profession safer? Even when that profession is so regulated that no one can obtain the permits necessary to practice as midwifery is here in Delaware?
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