JERUSALEM An international health official has warned doctorsthat hospital births endanger mothers and babies.
Hospital births risked lives because of impersonal proceduresand overuse of technology and drugs, said Dr. Marsden Wagner,European regional director of the World Health Organization.
"I am convinced the procedure of placing all newborn babies inone room was the biggest mistake of modern medicine," he told aninternational medical conference on the psychology and medicine ofbirth.
Wagner said a hospital nursery was a cradle of germs, separatingbabies from their mothers at the most sensitive point of theirrelationship. He said studies linked …
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