I question the routine use of a hospital for giving birth. A hospital is a place where ailing people go for a diagnosis and receive treatment (and sometimes also therapy) for that diagnosis. When did pregnancy become an ailment? When did something as natural as giving birth become something that requires medical intervention?
Many times we (Americans) identify that a problem may exist with some aspect of our society, be it diet, emotional health, interpersonal communication, or whatever. Then, some expert in the field proposes a fix to the problem, a fix that isn’t always known (through long experience) to resolve the problem and sometimes might even make matters worse.
