When I came up with that title, I was tempted to have a little fun with it, wishing i had some clip art with a picture of a backwoods granny woman with a corncob pipe and a well worn black midwife bag to juxtapose against a photo of a well-groomed white male doctor in surgical scrubs, getting ready to head out to his golf game. Stereotypes aren’t the most helpful thing, although they do sometimes serve to illuminate cultural assumptions about different groups of people. Instead of going down that path—now that I’ve planted the images in your head—I’ll try and give a brief rundown of how midwives differ from obstetricians…