Pain management during childbirth in the United States can be simplified into two perspectives: labor without medical interference, including pain relief, and the biomedical approach that promotes medical interventions that enhance safety and reduce discomfort. In this article, a single-site, qualitative study using semi-structured interviews conducted at an urban academic OB/GYN residency program in the Midwest, between 2018 and 2019, sought to illustrate how residents characterize the ways in which laboring women express pain and how they develop clinical approaches to respond to it.
Reference: Kroll C, Murphy J, Poston L, You W, Premkumar A. Cultivating the ideal obstetrical patient: How physicians-in-training describe pain associated with childbirth. Soc Sci Med. 2022 Nov;312:115365. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115365. Epub 2022 Sep 14. PMID: 36155358.
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