The Management of Some Obstetric Emergencies *A paper read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, 11th January, 1939.
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In recent years increasing stress lias been laid by speakers and writers 011 the importance of ante-natal care in the preventive aspect of obstetrics, and it has come to be believed that by such means the great majority of obstetric emergencies can be avoided. That this is not fact has been the cause of many discussions on such subjects as " Why are we dissatisfied with the results of ante-natal observation," when the fault is not with the results of ante-natal observation but with those who built extravagant hopes and Anticipations on such care. In the first flush of the recent outcry about maternal mortality the custom )Vas to blame the general practitioner for every fault ^ our obstetric services : but later, when the nationwide institution of ante-natal clinics had failed Materially to reduce that mortality, it became the fashion to blame the amount or the kind of supervision received. It is not my intention to discuss the scope
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