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Daily Archives: May 15, 2017

Maternal Mortality in the US: Is the Hospital a Dangerous Place?

There has been a lot of talk lately about maternal mortality.  A recent story published in ProPublica and NPR has been circulating social media, highlighting the problems with our labor and delivery system (Martin 2017).  The story is heartbreaking, describing a preventable postpartum death in a young, healthy mother.  While…