The Dangerous Myth of the Hero Obstetrician
The Responsibility Clause - Virtue, judgment, and the moral weight of guiding two lives.
The question “What makes a good obstetrician?” assumes we know what “goodness” means when one person carries responsibility for two lives at once. That assumption may be our first mistake.
Modern obstetrics has confused compassion with compliance, decisiveness with dominance, and experience with infallibility. We praise the doctor who performs the fastes…
