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26. When is a ‘High-Risk’ Pregnancy a Good Thing?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Why Do Nurses Have Higher Sea Section Rates?

For at least one of those 72 nurses, for eight of every 100 childberths they attended ended with se sections. Neil and his colleagues wondered if it could be that some nurses were simply assigned the more complicated labors. There aren't any guide lines on how many labor and delivery rooms a hospital needs to have related to the number of mothers who give birth there each year.

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