Obstetric evidence based guidelines

To me, pregnancy has always been the most fascinating and exciting area of interest, as care involves not one, but at least two persons – the mother and the fetus – and leads to the miracle of a new life. I was a third-year medical student, when, during a lecture, a resident said: ‘I went into obstetrics because this is the easiest medical field. Pregnancy is a physiology process, and there isn’t much to know. It’s simple’. I knew from my ‘classic’ background that ‘obstetrics’ means to ‘stand by, stay near’, and that indeed pregnancy used to receive no medical support at all.