This episode of Fresh Air features an in-depth interview with Dr. Mary Fariba Afsari, a board-certified OB-GYN and author of the memoir Labor, One Woman's Work. The story centers on her radical transformation from a traditional surgical OB-GYN practice to founding one of the countr
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