And I do know of OB's who are prepared to sit and support without doing anything...they are far and few between and all that I've heard of have been elderly, trained in bedside manner. It's not a new school trait, I"m afraid.
I agree Mayaness. Every hands off OB I have come across (and I had one in the public hospital for my first birth actually) was very old school, trained years ago before all these interventions were commonplace, and have what is fundamentally a "midwifery" view of birth. But sadly, they are a dying breed. And those replacing them are being trained in a completely different way.