Midwives and the care of ‘normal’ childbirth

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The following extract, entitled ‘A hell of an assault course: Hepatticus is forced to go for a stint of management training’, is taken from a regular humorous column by a fictitious Professor Sir Hepatticus Oath, TS FRS, and appeared in the BMA News Review in May 1994: ‘… the coup de horreur was the discovery on the final day, that Hepatticus must do a three-legged assault course, tied by the ankle to a senior midwife. Can there be anything closer to a definition of hell? How is one meant to work with someone who refused to follow any simple instruction because she is a “practitioner in her own right” but who seemed incapable of doing anything practical at all? A woman who at the first sign of difficulty denied all responsibility and pleaded with Hepatticus to take over. Hepatticus thanks the Lord that, despite as a student being intrigued by William Hunter's 18th century classic, Gravid Uterus, I was never tempted into obstetrics.’

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