What does being an obstraticion have to do with math?

Answer 1

Obstetricians are medical doctors, so they have to study a lot of hard-core science -- including physics, chemistry, Biology, and statistics -- all of which involve math. An obstetrician has to understand, for instance, how blood levels of a drug will fall when the drug is discontinued -- a full understanding requires exponentials. He or she has to understand whether, let's say, a new method of delivering babies, published in a medical journal, is truly safer than existing methods -- here quantitative statistical reasoning is needed to make a judgment. Most people with important jobs use math one way or another.