"If you're pregnant, you go to the doctor and he treats you as if you're sick. Childbirth is a nine-month disease which must be treated, so you're sold on intravenous fluid bags, fetal monitors, a host of drugs, the totally unnec-essary episiotomy, and — the top of the line product — the Caesarean delivery!" — Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, from his book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic