OB 'at home on the witness stand' (Richard M. Houck, MD)

Todd Gastaldo

From:	Todd Gastaldo
Subject:	OB 'at home on the witness stand' (Richard M. Houck, MD)
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:33:11 GMT

RICHARD M. HOUCK, MD

"...at home on the witness stand..."
http://www.obgynconsulting.com/qualifications.htm

"...sole managing partner of a...multi-physician (14 providers),
multi-location (four locations) full service obstetrics and gynecology
practice..."
http://www.obgynconsulting.com/qualifications.htm

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Richard M. Houck, MD
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Board Certified, November 5, 1982
Fellow of American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
http://www.obgynconsulting.com/drhouckcv.htm
rhouck@alumni.princeton.edu
(877) 495-5539

Richard,

You are "at home on the witness stand..."
http://www.obgynconsulting.com/qualifications.htm

In relevant birth trauma cases...

Would you get on a witness stand and tell a jury that standard medical
delivery positions close the birth canal up to 30%?

Would you get on a witness stand and tell a jury that OBs are KEEPING birth
canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck?

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
todd@chiromotion.com

PS1 Richard, you yourself have probably personally closed birth canals up to
30% and kept birth canals closed when babies get stuck - so I realize that
it would be difficult for you to be at home on the witness stand saying such
things.

But your silence would be fraud and deception...

Other OB experts are engaging in fraud and deception to conceal this bizarre
birth
behavior.

THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html

ETHICAL VIOLATION

MDs are violating AMA's Principles of Medical Ethics, failing to strive to
expose the OB fraud and deception, as in,

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/ethics/ethics_opinions53101.cfm

As a doctor of chiropractic, I am appalled that OBs are performing gruesome
spinal manipulation on babies - pulling with hands, forceps, vacuums - with
birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

Sometimes OBs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves our of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies are paralyzed - most "only" have their spines
gruesomely wrenched.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed the "extra"
up to 30%.

In addition Jared, OBs are performing surgical batteries...

UNNECESSARY C-SECTIONS: OBs CAUSE cephalopelvic disproportion (close the
pelvis up to 30%) then perform c-sections BEcause of cephalopelvic
disproportion.

UNNECESSARY EPISIOTOMIES: OBs are slicing vaginas en masse (routine
episiotomy) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are doing everything
possible to open birth canals - even as they close birth canals up to 30%.

NOTE TO PREGNANT WOMEN... It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up to 30%.
All you have to do is roll onto your side as you push your baby out. Note:
This won't prevent all operative vaginal deliveries and unnecessary
c-sections and episiotomies but it will very likely prevent some.

WHITE ELEPHANT FACT: Women shouldn't have to ASK for this "extra" up to
30% - but that's the way it is - so talk to your OB today.

How sad that in regard to c-sections MDs are implicating large babies and
large women and failing to mention that they are routinely closing birth
canals up to 30% and routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get
stuck.

Richard, I hope you will strive to expose the fraud and deception of OBs.

For some babies, it's a matter of life and death.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
todd@chiromotion.com

Copied to: Other OB experts found at:
http://www.atla.org/publications/trial/0404/classifieds.aspx
Obstetrician/Gynecologist. University faculty, board cert., articulate, very
jury friendly. Review/testimony. Free phone consult. CV on request.
plcret@aol.com. (407) 628- 1910.

Obstetrician/Gynecologist Expert Witness. Board cert., jury friendly,
multilingual. Plaint/ Defense. Multiple subspecialties/case review/
opinion/testimony services; free phone consult., (310) 878-7018,
human21364@hotmail.com.

Obstetrician/Gynecologist Expert Witness. Experienced and very "jury
friendly." Excellent appearance, superb credentials, nationally recognized.
National TV medical news analyst/commentator. (781) 764-4747.

CHIROPRACTIC EXPERT WITNESS

Copied to: Chiropractic expert Alan H. Bragman, DC found at:
http://www.atla.org/publications/trial/0404/classifieds.aspx

Alan says of himself: Chiropractic. Expert witness, plaintiff & defense.
Negligence, standards of care & utilization. Over 500 cases reviewed, 20
years experience, consultation/review/testimony, CV and chiropractic
malpractice guide on website. Alan Bragman, D.C., (888) 383-2856 or (678)
777-1161. www.alanbragman.com.
http://www.atla.org/publications/trial/0404/classifieds.aspx

PS2 Alan H. Bragman, DC (wise64875@aol.com)

Alan,

You write of STROKE and CERVICAL MANIPULATION...

"My experience as a forensic expert leads me to conclude that the risk of
stroke from cervical manipulation is much greater than current literature
suggests. In some cases I have reviewed, people died as a direct result of
cervical spinal manipulation."
http://www.alanbragman.com/bragman7.htm

Speaking of stroke and spinal manipulation....

1. "Stroke in infants and children is an important cause of morbidity and
mortality..."
--Karin B. Nelson, MD, NINDS (Lynch et al. Pediatrics 2002
Jan;109(1):116-23]

2. OBs sometimes pull so hard on babies' spines that they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords thereby paralyzing the baby...

Babies sometimes DIE during and immediately after birth. The deaths can't
always be explained.

I am thinking that juries in relevant birth trauma cases should hear that
OBs are closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth canals closed as
they pull.

If you know how this might be accomplished, I hope you will share.

A few last notes...

Oregon's only medical school, OHSU is promoting
birth-canal-closing/semisitting on the web.

See Birth child abuse: Oregon's only medical school (OHSU)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2986

At least one campus in the UC system (UCIrvine) is also promoting
birth-canal-closing/semisitting on the web.
So I'm protesting there too...

See Pediatricians: What about DURING birth?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3142

See also: Distinguished OBSTETRIC Teaching at UCLA?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3153

American medicine's MOST frequent surgical behavior (among BOTH males and
females) - severing the umbilical cord - is also obvious child abuse the way
it is often performed by American MDs (immediate cord clamping/cutting).

See again: Birth child abuse: Oregon's only medical school (OHSU)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2986

And see: Dr. Hollands' glib response (re: umbilical cord clamping)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/0c17a982c14c5681

FINALLY SOME NOTES ABOUT THE GREAT SQUAT ROBBERY...

The Great Birth Robbery (routine denial of the "extra" up to
30%) was in effect blamed on The Great Squat Robbery in British
obstetrician Jason Gardosi, MD's 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of
squatting" - where nobody squatted...

See Two robberies: educators can stop them
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3047

See also: The Great Squat Robbery and UCI's Harry B. Skinner, MD, PhD
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3146

Do squatting cultures really want to ape Western chairdwelling culture in
robbing children of an innate comfortable rest posture that doubles as a
human delivery posture that allows the birth canal to open the "extra" up to
30%?

As folks in squatting cultures easily rise from a squat in squatting
cultures well into old age, many elderly chairdwellers have difficulty
rising from a chair.

Here in the US, Medicare pays for motors in "ejection" chairs.

We shouldn't be robbing children of an innate way to take a rest on their
feet in virtually any terrain.

Hopefully, the West's chair imperialism can be reversed.

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
todd@chiromotion.com
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA

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