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Harry A. Lusk, MD
Van Nuys, Calif

JAMA. 1989;261(20):2951.

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To the Editor.—

Dr Dandoy¹ protests that she does indeed practice medicine, and she lists the things she does. Congratulations to her. She thinks that committee meetings qualify. However, I bet it has been some time since she stood at the table of a gravida 5, para 4 woman and found that the neat cephalic presentation suddenly had become mentum posterior and that you and the anesthetist and the patient are the only ones around; it is 4 AM, and after the version the head is still hyperextended and you say to yourself, "God, what do I do now," and you remember Paul Titus: "At times like this, I put on a regular pair of forceps, flex the head and deliver it through one of the obliques." The boy crowed for an hour from the tight loops of cord, but he was in the other day when he graduated . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West).

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