Patient safety, disciplinary action, and the marginalization of midwives

by Amy Romano, CNM (Originally published on Science and Sensibility for Lamaze International)It sounded like an April Fools joke, except the story broke two days early. Doctors in North Carolina induced and ultimately performed a cesarean on a woman who wasn’t pregnant. The case happened in 2008 but we all learned about it this week because the North Carolina Medical Board finished their