Word: obstetrician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boudreau had had pains in her ear off & on for 15 years. Last week the pain got so bad that she went to Dr. Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician, of White Plains Medical Center. He slipped his forceps into her aural canal, between the outer and inner ear, drew out an object three-quarters of an inch long, stared at it in amazement. Then he sent it to the laboratory which soon reported that it was indubitably what he had suspected-the skeleton of a cricket...
Cried Dr. Prentiss Wilson, Washington obstetrician: "The American Medical Association comes into the debate with un clean hands. It has refused as a political organization to study that which as a medical society it lists as one of the major problems confronting women...
...excised. Many a tuberculous patient has had a useless lung collapsed. But only once has a U. S. surgeon cut out an entire lung with success. That was last April, when Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham of Washington University, St. Louis, removed a cancerous lung from a University of Pennsylvania obstetrician. Doris Yost had the good fortune to come under the bold eye of Dr. William Francis Rienhoff Jr., protégé and son-in-law of Johns Hopkins' eminent Urological Surgeon Hugh Hampton Young. Surgeon Rienhoff found that Doris Yost had a cancer in the passage...
...Expectant mothers should beware of obstetricians who are too prone to caesarean operations (removal of the baby by abdominal incision). Caesareans are spectacular operations, make surgeons feel proud, but they are dangerous and in 95%, of deliveries a skilled obstetrician need only help Nature...
When men count off the baker's dozen of eminent U. S. women doctors they point to Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 50, Manhattan pediatrician, and Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, 70, Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician, as outstanding practitioners. They point to Chicago's Dr. Gladys R. Henry Dick for her scarlet fever work (with her husband) and Maude Slye, 54, who, although no doctor, is an eminent cancer researcher...