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Florida allows doctors to perform C-sections outside of hospitals Siding with a doctors organization owned by private equity, Florida has become the first state to let doctors to perform caesarean sections outside of hospitals. The group claims the shift would save expenses and provide pregnant women with the more comfortable delivery environment that many prefer. Although some Florida hospitals have abandoned their maternity wards in recent years, the hospital business and the major obstetricians' group in the country argue that conducting C-sections in doctor-run clinics will raise the dangers for women and babies when difficulties emerge. At an email to KFF Health News, Orlando perinatologist Cole Greves, who leads the Florida branch of the American College of Obstetricians and...