[slowhandluke]

What's the Chinese phrase? Hang one and influence a thousand? John Edwards no longer gets money from Doctors for Cerebral Palsy infants. Yet, his influence continues in an increased count of cesarean sections, with the associated number of deaths of the mother.

You need to count the number of extra procedures and tests done to avoid lawsuits, as well as the direct payments to legal insurance and legal vultures.

You also have to count the cost in lives of the procedures not done because the patient isn't already in pretty good health which makes the procedure risky.

And the cost in dollar and lives because of the vanishing specialists in certain areas like obstetrics and high risk surgery.

[parsifal]

Do you think there is any good side to doctors doing more c-sections? What do you think the alternative is?

parsy, who is curious