The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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Yes, CNMs won an important case in Washington DC in regard to malpractice carriers who increased their premium from $300 to $12,000 a year in the form of a surcharge to physicians who have professional associations with CNMs. The DC Superintendent of Insurance overturned the company rates and re-instated the former "nominal" $300 fee. The case determined that NO actuarial tables exist anywhere in the US that would justify the practice of surcharges based on the insurance company's claim of "vicarious liability" to the physician. The nurse-midwives slam-dunked the doc-owned insurance companies.
The article is called "The Myth of Vicarious Liability" -- Impact on Barriers to Nurse-Midwifery Practice, by Susan Jenkins, JD; JNM, Vol 39, No 2. March/Artil 1994. It is chock full of wonderful tidbits about malpractice law such as the "obsolete" legal doctrines of "captain of the ship" (the doctor) and "borrow servant" (the nurse)upon which the theory of vicarious liability was predicated. I have a two page synopsis/pertinent excerpts that i can fax to you if you're REALLY interested. It's good.
Midwives in California should take note as the physician-owned malpractice
companies in CA have recently announced a $12,000 surcharge for docs who
provide the legally-mandated "supervision" to both CNMs and direct-entry
midwives.
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