Although timely access to GPs and dentists is important, the quality of care that patients receive from their GP, dentist or midwife is also crucial and according to patients, it is extremely good.
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.
You should ask questions of your doctor or midwife ? there's no such thing as a silly question.
My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.