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Duke Univ. students to change history (obstetric history)?
DUKE STUDENTS TO CHANGE HISTORY (OBSTETRIC HISTORY)?
OBs and CNMwives are closing birth canals up to 30%. See PROOF below... OBs are performing GRUESOME mass spinal manipulation on babies - violently pushing on tiny spines (with oxytocin and Cytotec) and gruesomely pulling (with hands, forceps and vacuums) - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%. Sometimes OBs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords. Some babies die, some babies get paralyzed - most babies "only" have their spines gruesomely wrenched. ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed up to 30%. PREGNANT WOMEN: For simple instructions on how to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%, see the very end of this post. DUKE MED STUDENTS: A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY... "The third year at the Duke University School of Medicine represents a unique opportunity for the student...It is the responsibility of the student, with the guidance of a study program director and mentor, to identify the curriculum necessary to properly explore a particular research question." http://thirdyear.mc.duke.edu/ Hopefully, Duke University School of Medicine third year students can be guided toward researching the grisly obstetric spectacle of OBs and CNMwives knowingly closing birth canals up to 30% at delivery... In *researching* the grisly obstetric spectacle (obvious mass child abuse), Duke med students might STOP it - at Duke - and perhaps even worldwide... Copied to Duke Univeristy School of Medicine study program directors listed at: http://thirdyear.mc.duke.edu/pgrmDir.asp DUKE HISTORY STUDENTS... Copied also to: Duke University History Dept faculty members listed at: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/directory.html ATTENTION especially Duke University History faculty member and School of Medicine Medical Humanities program director Margaret Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D... Margaret, will you please copy me when you forward my post to Sherwin? Thanks in advance. ----- Original Message ----- From: Todd Gastaldo To: Cc: ; ; ; ; "Soo Downe" Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Nuland says Semmelweis only CLAIMED to have written letters NULAND SAYS SEMMELWEIS ONLY **CLAIMED** TO HAVE WRITTEN LETTERS (Sherwin B. Nuland, MD really plagued Semmelweis in The Doctors' Plague. My reaction was similar to Lancet editor Richard Horton's... See the postscript.) PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are knowingly closing birth canals (see PROOF in "I ain't no Semmelweis, but" URL below). It's as easy as washing hands to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. For simple instructions, see "I ain't no Semmelweis, but"... SHERWIN B. NULAND, MD Chairman of the Board of Managers Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "The goal of his recent work has been to transmit knowledge of medicine, biomedical ethics, and medical history to the public." http://www.yale.edu/isps/faculty/Nuland.html SHERWIN B. NULAND, MD via Margaret Humphreys Editor Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Box 90719 Department of History Duke University Durham NC 27708 USA Tel: +1 (919) 684 2285 Fax: +1 (919) 681 7670 Email: Sherwin, Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney promotes closing the birth canal up to 30% (semisitting delivery). Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen also promotes KEEPING the birth canal closed (lithotomy) when shoulders get stuck. Since you are at Yale, I mentioned that you could ask Helen to stop such foolishness. See I ain't no Semmelweis, but... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2591 Regardless what Helen does... In accord with your goal of transmitting knowledge of medicine to the public... Please help transmit to the public the message that OBs and CNMwives are closing birth canals. Please help transmit to the public that allowing the birth canal to open the "extra" up to 30% is as easy as washing hands. Thanks, Todd Dr. Gastaldo PS You recently criticized Lancet editor Richard Horton for saying that "Semmelweis wrote letters to leading obstetricians describing his findings and inviting replies." You say that Horton's source - Professor Codell Carter of Brigham Young University - indicates only that Semmelweis *claimed* (your emphasis) to have written such letters. You wrote, "That letters were sent is certainly true, but no evidence has ever been found that Semmelweis himself wrote any of them." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17009 (Sheesh.) Horton replied: "Time and again, Nuland interprets the evidence one way-against Semmelweis. Carter, for example, writes that 'as Semmelweis explained in his major book, The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, near the end of 1847 he and his students wrote letters to several prominent obstetricians in which they described their experiences and invited responses. Most of the letters were ignored. In The Etiology, Semmelweis quoted and discussed the few responses he had received. Hebra also referred to the letters in both of his announcements.' "Fact: Letters were sent. Fact: Responses were received and documented, unless Nuland is seriously proposing that this evidence was fabricated by Semmelweis, his students, and Hebra (there is no evidence that this is so). Conclusion: It is reasonable to claim that Semmelweis sought to communicate his ideas to others. It is wholly unreasonable to imagine that Semmelweis took no part in sending out these letters, given that they-and certainly the one letter cited by Carter-came from his student collaborators." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17009 I read your book, Sherwin, and my reaction was quite similar to Richard Horton's. I ain't no Semmelweis, but... Let this email serve as documentation that Todd D. Gastaldo, DC both CLAIMS to have sent emails warning about OBs and CNMwives closing birth canals - and actually HAS sent emails warning about OBs and CNMwives closing birth canals. OBs and CNMwives really are closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth canals closed when babies' shoulders get stuck. Some babies die, some get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines gruesomely wrenched. (ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly closed up to 30%.) Again Sherwin, you're right there at Yale - please ask CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney to stop encouraging midwives to ape OBs in closing of birth canals. And - of course - ask Yale OBs to stop closing birth canals. I'll copy Codell via This Open Letter will be archived for global access within 24 hrs in the Google usenet groups archive. Search http://groups.google.com for "Nuland says Semmelweis only CLAIMED to have written letters" END Gastaldo's Open Letter to Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, sent via Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD... Hopefully, chiropractic physicians will join the effort to stop OBs and CNMwives from closing birth canals... See Pregnant? Chiropractic, by definition... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2596 PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%... The fact that semisitting and dorsal close the birth canal is simple biomechanics. See Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth 1992;19(4):230. Here's my source for the 30% figure... "[T]he outlet increases with moulding by approximately 20-30 per cent." --Russell JGB. Moulding of the pelvic outlet. J Obstet Gynaec Brit Cwlth 1969;76:817-20. NOTE: In 1973, Ohlsen verified Russell's 20% figure on Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-rays. Ohlsen pointed out that the authors of Williams Obstetrics were claiming that the pelvic diameters *don't change* during delivery (!) - so the authors of Williams Obstetrics decided (erroneously) that dorsal delivery widens! Interestingly, early last century, J. Whitridge Williams, MD, the original author of Williams Obstetrics demonstrated MASSIVE amounts of change in pelvic outlet diameter change at-term - and Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-ray study accorded with the average amount of pelvic outlet diameter change Williams found clinically... See: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal Institute/WMPI states the grisly biomechanics of the semirecumbent delivery position (semisitting): "...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of the pelvic outlet..." http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing the birth canal) - or used to! "The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..." http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not before two of my posts were archived thereon: http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody squatted... See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084 MORE PROOF According to the Merck Manual: "When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..." http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the head is out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet diameter? WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%? WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders get stuck? (Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site (quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts if the shoulders get stuck... http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm) LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS... OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") - surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%! See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of Medicine http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256 Sorry to be repetitive but... WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their text. The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic diameters *don't change* at delivery! ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter change! For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc. BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!) --Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839] Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative" delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close your birth canal!) as you push your baby out! If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth canal closed! Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes: "In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839) Lithotomy position keeps the birth canal closed! So does semisitting! Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see "Criminal medical CAM," URL above.) CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first get the woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt. Thanks for reading everyone. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo This Open Letter will be archived for global access within 24 hours in the Google groups usenet archive. 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