Share 'Do Doctors Really Know Best?'

Being wheeled down the hall of the hospital toward the operating room, I wasn’t thinking about the constellation of factors that had led to that moment. Instead, I spent the minutes marveling at my incessant sobs. They’d started five minutes earlier when my doctor had announced, after 28 hours of medically induced labor, that I needed a C-section. The bawling wouldn’t stop; it was making me hiccu…