While I am on a roll (with the rants)

Dear Private Practice,

I was so excited when you were about to premiere!  Imagine!  A show about a wellness clinic that included a fertility doctor, a therapist, a midwife and an alternative medicine doctor who practiced Chinese healing and accupuncture.  What a refreshing change of pace from all the other cookie cutter shows about, well, about cutting, every chance they got.

But within the first couple of episodes I saw that you were not going to be all that you could.  And I was forced to write letters to ABC complaining about how that self-absorbed pain in the ass character of Addison Montgomery actually said the words "Midwifery?  Is that even a word?"  She belittled poor Dell, the midwife apprentice on that show and acted so superior that it made me sad.  And sick too.  But mostly, sad.

There's poor Dell on the right.  He got no respect.  Only from Naomi, who should be the second person from the left, only that person must have been replaced because that's not Naomi.  Front and center stands Addison Montgomery, and to her left is Tim Daly who we can all tell from the casual footwear is the "alternative" medicine dude.

And what happened?  Did things shape up in the mutual respect department?

Nope, not even a little bit.

You killed off Dell.

That's not exactly the way I thought you might handle the differences between care modalities.  So of course, the highly technical, interventive way has to be superior over the natural way of giving birth.

Then the last season began with Tim Daly's character leaving his herbs, his accupuncture needles, his calmer, less-invasive way of treating patients behind and all the sudden he is a

SURGEON????


wtf?

The births on this show are some of the least realistic births on television.

But last week?  Last week just took the cake.  I have resigned myself to the fact that you and I will never agree or see eye to eye on birth.

When the Addison character referred to post-partum depression or post-partum psychosis as simply "post-partum", saying something to the effect "many women experience post-partum", that was it for me.

Really?  Post-partum?  Isn't post-partum the word used to describe the period immediately following childbirth?  To demean that period in a woman's life and making it the equivalent to a psychological diagnosis is not only incorrect but inflammatory.

Shame, shame, shame on you.

I am done with you.  I am saying my good-byes now.

And good riddance.