A topic I usually miss from the discussion: gynecology and obstetrics practices. Here in Germany they are the most shitty medical professions. Research seems to

A topic I usually miss from the discussion: gynecology and obstetrics practices. Here in Germany they are the most shitty medical professions. Research seems to have been replaced with magical thinking and arguments like "you just have to trust you body", "we shouldn't make childbirth too easy for women", "caesarean section is against nature". In no other hospital department homeopathy "medication" is part of the standard treatment. A lot of birth departments are closing, the remaining ones often overcrowded with too few staff, the only mandatory staff during birth seem to be midwifes (with a chronic tendency to esoteric bullshittery), the examinations often more of a joke, like using using ultrasound for weight estimates of the unborn baby known as to imprecise for this purpose. We don't even have a central evaluation for injuries babys and mothers receive during birth (to kick the most dysfunctional hospitals a bit in the ass). As a result after giving birth, a lot of women suffer of traumas for being mistreatet by overworked staff or problems like incontinence, chronic panic and organ prolapse sometimes to a degree they can't work anymore. Often in silence out of shame, when they speak up, getting comments like "you wanted children you have to live with the results". For one of the most severe injuries avulsions of the musculus levator ani up to now there isn't even a working treatment. I guess, having a life with a job they like and a lot of activities some women just shy away from the risk or don't want to repeat an awful experience. I'm looking forward to what the Chinese are doing at the moment: "The Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study" is one of biggest cohort studies ever done and hopefully it brings a bit more insight into pregnancy and birth and things others call "that's just nature".