As hard as it may to believe it, childbirth wasn’t always the domain of hospitals and OB/GYNs. As recently as a couple of generations ago, people wouldn’t enlist the help of a doctor, but rather that of a midwife. New York City began licensing midwives in the year 1716, and even in those pre-Industrial Revolution days (when bloodletting was all the rage), the birth success rate ran at about...

A witch doctor often refers to healers in some third world regions, who use traditional healing rather than contemporary medicine. They use a different kind of energy to show people that they are believable. Witch doctors are those people who believe that God gave them a special power to heal other people’s sickness. Some of them treat there self as God already. But for me, they are just an ordinary...