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Summary:

Obstetrician who is one of the world's leading experts in treating vaginal tearing (childbirth injury) has opinions. Among these are:

1. That Universities are currently producing neurotic fragile graduates who are not handling the stress of the medical profession well. Female graduates seem to be leaving medicine at a greater rate and if so would represent a lower return on investment of educational and medical dollars since they are spending fewer years providing services to the community.

2. That many midwives are not trained medical professionals and many of them are afflicted with unscientific and unmedical attitudes including a fixation on vaginal birth as "safe and beautiful because mother nature". Women are now giving birth at ages far older than we evolved to and are suffering terrible injuries during childbirth because 30 and 40-year old bodies were never intended to push out babies. This doctor is of the opinion that it is the duty of medical staff to make sure caesarean birth is presented to high-risk mothers as a safer alternative, and if danger of injury exists medical staff must make the expectant mothers aware of that danger and possibly obtain signed consent forms acknowledging the risks if vaginal birth is insisted upon against medical advice. That midwives appear to be pressuring mothers in dangerous situations to demand vaginal birth because mummybloggers on the internet wouldn't lie drives this doctor up the fucking wall and he's sick of that shit getting women injured and killed.

While on a panel, (director of midwifery studies at the University of Technology Sydney) spoke of the importance of not scaring women if there were concerns about vaginal delivery and to instead discuss different options and risks. Dietz stood up and interrupted her. “He declared that it was his job to scare the bejesus out of women,” (she) said.

“The next day I found the conference organiser in tears in the bathroom after she had asked him to pay some respect to the speakers,” (she) said.

Uh-oh, White Woman Tears. As you may have predicted the midwives and mummy bloggers got their Twitter mob going and this guy is toast.

Hospital expels obstetrician after his controversial comments

The action effectively prevents Professor Hans Peter Dietz from working. It has shut down his two clinical trials, testing surgical methods for tears caused by vaginal birth trauma.

Professor Dietz is highly regarded for his research and strong advocacy for women who have experienced vaginal birth trauma, co-founding the Australasian Birth Trauma Association (ABTA).

Several colleagues rejected the notion he is sexist, and lamented the effect the controversy will have on his ability to continue his work.

Midwife Jane Turnnidge said Professor Dietz saved her life after she suffered serious complications in child birth years earlier, and urged the hospital to reinstate him.

"Women have no greater friend than Professor Dietz," she said. "Every day, he is going in to bat for his obstetric patients, for his gynaecology patients, for birth trauma victims, for women and babies in all manner of ways."

"To dismiss someone as talented and vital to the profession over what amounts to a trivial matter of hurt feelings flies in the face of freedom of speech, logic, commonsense and rationality."

Sorry doc, you're a white male and you just got cancelled. Doesn't matter that the work that got cancelled was literally saving lives, that's not as important as a midwife getting her feelings hurt.