Not exact matches
While
licensed midwives are not doctors, they provide the same basic services as OB - GYNs for women with low - risk pregnancies,
said Young, 25.
Licensing would give consumers more information about individual
midwives» education and competence as well as establish standards for care, they
say.
Licensed midwives are trained in normal patterns of labor, Moray
said, but if something becomes abnormal during the delivery, the
midwife transfers care to physicians.
«There is no other profession where you have to ask permission from someone who is a competitor in order to practice your trade,»
said Finn, a member of the board of the New York State Association of
Licensed Midwives.
Mbalu Fonnie, a
licensed nurse
midwife and the nursing supervisor of the KGH Lassa Ward, was «matron of nursing at KGH,»
says Robert Garry, a study co-author and virologist at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.