San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (The General) was recently highlighted in The New York Times as the safest place in California to have a baby.  Practicing evidence-based medicine, The General supports both mother and baby by encouraging vaginal delivery rather than the increasingly popular cesarean sections. C-sections often put the mother at greater risk and are more expensive to perform. Yet, according the article, America’s C-section rate has risen 50 percent over the last 10 years and is now used in a third of all births. In contrast, The General performs a low rate of C-sections on low-risk [...]