Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:08:00 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

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On 3/19/2025 1:17 PM, James Nicoll wrote:

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Today I read that "The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the
developed world. Shockingly, it's on the rise." I have not checked this.
P 239. Careless People. Sarah Wynn Williams. 2025.

Well, what do you expect when we have a medical industry instead of a
medical system? And a lot of doctors (and probably other medical
staff, such as nurses) with great piles of student loans to pay off?
Which, however strong their professional ethics, must influence some
of them [1] in their decisions.

And of course it is rising. There are States controlled by Republicans
where care for pregnant women has become much less available (if not,
ignoring midwifes, having disappeared altogether) because of the
draconian anti-abortion laws. Which in some cases extend could see a
jury deciding whether a doctor's medical decision violated the law or
not.

[1] The underlying theory here is that every large group of people
doing the same job will include some stinkers.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"