> We believe this is the ideal approach to patient care. There's the rub: Ideal for the patients? Or for the doctors/nurses? The incentives are not at all alig

> We believe this is the ideal approach to patient care. There's the rub: Ideal for the patients? Or for the doctors/nurses? The incentives are not at all aligned. Reading everything we can about birth as my wife is pregnant and it's astonishing the amount of interventionism that the field gets into. It seems like things are implemented first and then dialed back only if they backfire in an obvious way. You end up with hundreds of dubious interventions: https://elifesciences.org/articles/45183 https://elifesciences.org/articles/45183 But the incentive is almost never towards respecting the precautionary principles, and almost always towards billable services.