Should c/s rates be published? Naming & shaming...

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If an ob purposely ignores a woman in obvious need of a emergency c/s woman simply because he/she is worried about the hospital statistics, I reckon he/she deserves to be sued for malpractice. Because at that point, when a woman actually needs a c/s, is when he's supposed to be doing his job, and not performing unnecessary c/s on women who didn't actually want them, but was coerced into one.

To me, if this makes a Dr think twice about pressuring a woman to have a c/s when there is every possibility that she wouldn't need one at all, I think that's a hell of a positive outcome. If obs go back to peforming c/s on women who need them to save her or her baby, I think that's another positive outcome.

I loved birthing in a birth centre. If, by some miracle, I ever fell pg again, I'd be booking myself into one so fast your head would spin. But if I couldn't get into one, I would choose a hospital birth over a homebirth. I don't want to birth at home, I don't want to have my teenagers in the next room watching tv, or wanting to have their friends over (this actually happened while I was in labour).

So I would want to attend a hospital that had low intevention rates, because I would want a vb. So would it be helpful to me if I could then find out which hospitals had low intervention rate? I think so.