Dr. Michael Klein is a family doctor, pediatrician, neonatologist, maternity and care researcher, and educator based at Children’s & Women’s Hospital and also at the Centre for Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health of the Child and Family Research Institute in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.

He is best known for his randomized controlled trial of routine episiotomies that demonstrated that they increased the very trauma that they were intended to prevent.

His work is credited with leading to a dramatic drop in episiotomies and a parallel drop in severe rectal trauma across Canada and beyond.

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