Dr. Steevo; what's your full name, your license number, your disciplinary history and also kindly disclose your peer reviews. Any lawsuit history? Just want to make a point with those questions...their deeply personal nature.
I'm wary of a physician with a political axe to grind volunteering to analyze a patient he's never examined and draw factual conclusions without:
a. having examined the patient or being asked to by the patient;
b. conducting or reading her history and physical to include trends observed in past pregnancies and births;
c. access to her OB-GYN's medical records, readouts, films, notes etc.
d. spoken to her on the spot;
e. monitored her labs over time;
f. spoken with her other physicians;
g. and without an ethical doctor-patient relationship or history or a court subpoena to provide expertise beyond junk science speculation.
You haven't made any argument that adverse consequences came from Palin's course of action or that there is a link between the baby's Downs and Palin's actions. And that alone suggests that this is a venal, shrill and mean enterprise.
Anyone who understands the import of having family and friends around at birth for support; one's own physician on the scene; and the sense that one is home, barring any factual information requiring medical emergency measures, could see why a woman would want to have her child at home.
Without actual evidence, what I hear is that you are after some headlines to get political back pats from partisan pals. We don't even know if you're really a physician. Why would we believe it without some proof?
Another concern, even if you are a doc, is that in light of all of the above, how can we trust your judgment? You seem to be shooting from the hip without medical evidence about the patient behind your words. You have a political point to make, which is itself a conflict of interest with your medical opinion as if you have the basis to make a fully informed one.
It's also relevant whether you might perform abortions as part of your practice? It seems a reasonable question to ask you if you do since she is pro-life and such a fact would definitely suggest your bias. Do you?
