by Alan Lindemann, M.D. I am pleased to have this opportunity to talk with you about a topic which is in the news almost daily—the maternal death rate in the United States. My video course on how to survive childbirth in now available.. A description of this course can be found in the sidebar….
by Alan Lindemann, M.D. I considered a couple of specialties when I was in medical school, possibly ENT or peds. But I soon realized in my obstetrical rotation that one thing obstetrics had to offer that other specialties didn’t was that with pregnancy, the doctor and parents could aim for a particular outcome, a healthy…
Dr. Lindemann’s course on “How to Avoid Losing Your Life in Childbirth” will be available soon, but when Hamza Davis read about the upcoming video, he asked Dr. Lindemann to talk to his listeners about maternal death and comment on what we know about pregnancy and COVID-19. The You Tube podcast is now available!
Dr. Lindemann, with Diane Haugen, wrote Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know in 1992 because even back then, Dr. Lindemann was very concerned about the forces increasingly taking medical decisions out of the hands of physicians and in doing so, rapidly increasing the cost of health care. At that time, the writers thought that…
by Alan Lindemann, M.D. Each year an estimated 1200 women in the U.S. suffer complications during pregnancy or childbirth that prove fatal and 60,000 suffer consequences that are near-fatal…. ProPublica and National Public Radio reported a remarkable story which people are still talking about years later. Lauren, a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse…