Word: gynecologists
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Michelle Harrison had been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel...
...maternal preoccupations and particularly of her part-time status (though she received only half-pay for two-thirds time). "If you aren't willing to give up your child," she was told by a department head at another hospital, "you don't deserve to be an obstetrician-gynecologist...
...letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Dublin Gynecologist Colm O'Herlihy notes the case of two women in their mid-20s who regularly ran about 20 miles a week. Both had stopped taking birth-control pills a year ago, and neither had menstruated since. O'Herlihy prescribed high doses of the fertility drug clomiphene citrate but without result. Finally, he asked his patients to lay off the trackwork. Within eight weeks, both had ovulated while taking half the original doses of clomiphene. Shortly thereafter both became pregnant...
...woman and see a gynecologist once a year...
...cancer patient, whose award of nearly $400,000 in malpractice damages against a University Health Services doctor (UHS) and her private gynecologist was nullified this June, will resume her fight in appellate court, probably by early spring...