Do maternity care provider groups have different attitudes towards birth?
In our environment, obstetricians were the most attached to technology and interventions including caesarean section and inductions, midwives the least, while family physicians fell in the middle. While generalisations can be problematic, obstetricians and midwives generally follow a defined and different approach to maternity care. Family physicians are heterogeneous, sometimes practising more like midwives and sometimes more like obstetricians.
The early disappearance of lacunar folds is a sign of conjunctival retraction manifest in patients with dry eye syndrome. The degree of conjunctival retraction degree varies according to the dry eye etiology and severity of the symptoms.