‘Don’t Cut Me!’: Discouraged By Experts, Episiotomies Still Common In Some Hospitals - California Healthline

Kimberly Turbin, 29, and her son Rio Turbin, 3, in Stockton, Calif., on June 23, 2016. The video of her episiotomy is on YouTube and has been viewed more than 420,000. (Robert Durell for Kaiser Health News)

‘Don’t Cut Me!’: Discouraged By Experts, Episiotomies Still Common In Some Hospitals

Overall rates are falling in California and nationally but data point to certain hospitals with extremely high percentages.