Word: gyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a thriving Ob-Gyn practice in Dallas, Dr. Robert Gunby never expected to complain about his working conditions. But then he never expected that managed care would transform his life. Gunby's salary has dropped 10% in the past four years, and he's had to dip into his personal savings just to pay his staff. And while he's used to nights spent in the delivery room, he says his workweek now clocks in at nearly 100 hours--up to 20 of them, he estimates, spent haggling with insurance companies over approval for drugs and treatments...
...were suffering an identity crisis. Some doctors have become so discouraged that they're leaving the profession entirely. A neurosurgeon in Texas folded his practice to become a police officer. A California radiologist quit to go canoeing in South Africa and bicycling in New Zealand. A San Francisco ob-gyn went to business school to learn how to manage other people's money...
...also a sentence in this year's guide's Sexuality Services section that will send a shiver down some morally sensitive spines: "If you become pregnant and wish to continue the pregnancy, you will be referred to the UHS Obstetrical Service, staffed by Brigham and Women's Faculty OB-GYN Practice physicians and nurse practitioners, for prenatal care." The sentence implies that having an abortion is as common and unproblematic as continuing a pregnancy, which for most of us it is certainly...
...Graham, 33, a three-degree Harvard alumnus (B.A., J.D., M.B.A.), has taken a break from her career as a management consultant to write A Darker Shade of Crimson (Simon & Schuster; 286 pages; $23), a mystery set at her alma mater. Similarly, Margaret Cuthbert, 34, a Stanford graduate and ob-gyn, has mined her experiences for a medical whodunit, The Silent Cradle (Pocket Books; 353 pages...
...government funding of abortions, they point out that for every $1 spent on abortions for indigent women, roughly $4 is saved in future medical and welfare expenditures that would have resulted from the birth. Abortions save the government money; they should be more widely available, and OB-GYN residents should be instructed in how to perform them...