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Old June 10th 04, 06:31 PM
Todd Gastaldo
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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
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