Its ones own choice to chose whichever available services they prefer. Yet its frustrating to see how random people just decide on whats an issue and what not.
In the presence of an emergency setting, most people will not care what gender the provider is, the greater the acuity the lesser ones focus or consideration on who the provider is, its the level of experience, expertise and scope of practice that matters to the patient.
With regards to out of hospital births, there is the risk of complications to mother and baby that would require rapid lifesaving interventions. Its a statistical fact that some newborns will require aggressive resuscitation and some mothers will have life threatening complications.
It sounds nice when someone posts some nonsensical arguments of the responder being their husbands friend. for starters one would think that a friend or acquaintance of the patient or their family would let other personnel respond to this address, Hatzalah is a pretty large organization with lot of members there will always be someone else available for this call. Besides, an argument can easily be made that the patient would be uncomfortable with the same gender provider who is their acquaintance, not their husbands shull buddy, being involved in ANY of their emergencies.