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As doctors, we know full well that tracking the baby’s heart rate during labor has increased interventions but has not improved outcomes. In simpler terms, tracking the baby’s heart rate during labor has gotten more women induced or sliced open, but has not decreased stillbirths or postpartum deaths. Then why do we do it? Because it’s scary not to, that’s why. And I speak from experience.

feels meta to add on sublime a link about sublime :)

There is something about this coexistence and codependency of the public and the private which feels even more important now than it was in our last Gilded Age.