Word: gyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-day roundup is as much carnival as hunt. It begins with a parade down Sweetwater's Broadway (antique cars; the Girl Scouts Troop No. 114 float; the Sweetwater High band; Dr. Michael Dainer, the town ob-gyn, with his Clydesdale and buggy; the Nolan County sheriff's posse) and a beauty-queen contest in which 21 of the town's young women vie for a scholarship prize of $1,000 and the title Miss Snake Charmer...
...responsive to human beings, and I can't change it from the inside." The book already has ignited sparks among obstetricians. Harrison's contention that there is no humanity in the system is "hyperbole at its worst," snaps Dr. Emanuel Friedman, Harrison's ob-gyn chief at Boston Beth Israel Hospital. Though Friedman expresses respect for Harrison's med skills, he feels that her book describes an obstetrics that is passé. "We've become enlightened," he says. "We do not intervene willy-nilly." He cites a declining episiotomy rate, efforts to control the number...
Still, when a woman postpones child bearing, she increases the chance that she will not be fit when the time comes. "Her gamble," says Chicago Ob-Gyn Allan Charles, "is that she won't have diabetes or high blood pressure." Or, for that matter, arthritis, respiratory ailments, obesity or kidney disease. All of these conditions make pregnancy more difficult. Diabetes and hypertension, for example, can interfere with the normal development of the placenta. Though some of these ailments can be controlled by diet and medication, their incidence increases with...
...MONTHS AGO, a woman walked into the hospital with cramps. The doctors thought she had appendicitis and decided to do exploratory surgery. The surgeon, an intern rotating through GYN, thought her appendix looked fine, so I thought we were going to close her up. But then he started to look at her tubes. He said, 'We should take her tubes; they don't look good.' I couldn't see anything wrong with them, so I said that we shouldn't do a tubal ligation until we got a second opinion. But this inter-surgeon kept insisting that her tubes...