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Maternal-fetal specialists are obstetricians who undergo three additional years of training to manage the most complicated and high-risk pregnancies.
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Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
The family's lawyers contended the boy suffered brain damage when an attending obstetrician and four nurses didn't perform a timely Caesarean section on his mother.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
Parents told me of both insurance plans and obstetricians skeptical of a powerful new medication never tested in pregnant women—and not without reason.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
In other cases, guidelines require psychiatrists to prescribe it, rather than obstetricians, potentially delaying treatment since OB-GYN practitioners are usually the first medical providers to see signs of postpartum depression.
—April Dembosky, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
Concluding that the medical students and obstetricians were causing puerperal fever in their pregnant patients by infecting them with cadaverous particles on their hands, Semmelweis instituted some harsh protocols.
—Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Over the same period, only two obstetricians moved to the state to practice.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024
She was arrested again in August 1943, along with Behrens and Dr. Fred Thomas, a Detroit obstetrician and a Nazi fanatic known for hectoring a rabbi with antisemitic propaganda.
—Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
In late December, doctors at the al-Aqsa Hospital, 11 miles to the north, received a pregnant woman whose high blood pressure caused eclampsia and bleeding to her brain, according to Deborah Harrington, a British obstetrician who volunteered at the hospital with a Medical Aid for Palestinians team.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
The family's lawyers contended the boy suffered brain damage when an attending obstetrician and four nurses didn't perform a timely Caesarean section on his mother.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
Parents told me of both insurance plans and obstetricians skeptical of a powerful new medication never tested in pregnant women—and not without reason.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
In other cases, guidelines require psychiatrists to prescribe it, rather than obstetricians, potentially delaying treatment since OB-GYN practitioners are usually the first medical providers to see signs of postpartum depression.
—April Dembosky, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
Concluding that the medical students and obstetricians were causing puerperal fever in their pregnant patients by infecting them with cadaverous particles on their hands, Semmelweis instituted some harsh protocols.
—Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Over the same period, only two obstetricians moved to the state to practice.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024
She was arrested again in August 1943, along with Behrens and Dr. Fred Thomas, a Detroit obstetrician and a Nazi fanatic known for hectoring a rabbi with antisemitic propaganda.
—Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
In late December, doctors at the al-Aqsa Hospital, 11 miles to the north, received a pregnant woman whose high blood pressure caused eclampsia and bleeding to her brain, according to Deborah Harrington, a British obstetrician who volunteered at the hospital with a Medical Aid for Palestinians team.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
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“Obstetrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obstetrician. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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obstetrician
noun
ob·ste·tri·cian
ˌäb-stə-ˈtrish-ən 
: a physician specializing in obstetrics
Medical Definition
obstetrician
noun
ob·ste·tri·cian
ˌäb-stə-ˈtrish-ən
: a physician specializing in obstetrics
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