Word: childbirth
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...beyond routine office care is handled by the same two doctors Jerome M. Federschenider and Paul L Winig '62 For example, many familiar with the pair's work describe them as "traditional" in approach, a term used by some to suggest only a reliance on mechanical rather than "natural" childbirth methods and interpreted by others to imply a brusque office manner...
...were women, many of them with gynecologic concerns. But she notes that "there has definitely been a rise in debate" on such issue in recent years, simply because of increasing national concern with obstetric issues. BWH and UHS doctors say that the broad movement among women's for "natural" childbirth and for more patient participation in the delivery process, has sparked a large proportion of the complaints against UHS. Because the University service has only two gynecologists available to women on the Harvard health plan, the matter of patient choice is also a focal point in the larger debate over...
Other doctors argue that BWH's Caesarean rate is high because, as a teaching hospital, it serves as a referral center for high-risk and complicated cases. And they add that concern for the safety for both mother and baby sometimes conflicts with patient preference for "natural" childbirth and maximum choice for the mother, who may not want to be operated on or drugged...
...Different Seasons (Viking; 527 pages; $16.95) may be a trifle shocked by what they have brought home: a collection of four novellas, only one of which offers the chills that have become King's trademark. The Breathing Method is an eerie account of a terribly unnatural childbirth. But the other three, though sporadically gruesome, come without King's customary trimmings. Gone are varieties of telekinesis (Carrie, Firestarter) and precognition (The Shining, The Dead Zone). There are no vampires ('Salem's Lot), apocalyptic plagues (The Stand) or satanically rabid Saint Bernards (Cujo). The only reader likely...
...differences. He was not born in the dim fastnesses of a palace, screened by courtiers, but in a $218-a-day, 12-ft. by 12-ft. white room, with one rather shabby armchair, at London's St. Mary's Hospital. Both parents had taken lessons in natural childbirth, and his father was in the room all through his mother's six hours of labor.* "I am, after all, the father, and I suppose I started this whole business," Prince Charles said earlier. "So, I intend to be there when everything happens...