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...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...
...policy has few provisions for institutions that conscientiously object to abortion. Institutions that do not perform or support abortions must send their OB-GYN residents to other hospitals that do provide such training...
...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...