Dr. Lauren Plante

"It's neat, it's tidy, it's also not a long, drawn-out labor for doctors as well as not a long, drawn-out labor for the patient," Dr. Lauren Plante, associated professor of obstetrics, gynecology and anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University.

Lauren Plante, MD, MPH, FACOG, Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA)

Patient-choice cesarean delivery already occurs in more than 2 percent of all U.S. births, and the national cesarean section rate in 2004 was 29.1 percent, say authors Lawrence Leeman, M.D., M.P.H., of the departments of family and community medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Lauren Plante, M.D., of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.