Word: obstetrician
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...believes that the new woman's specialist should concentrate almost exclusively on preventive and primary care. "The ideal setup would be female clinics, overseen by doctors but staffed by nurses and other non-M.D. professionals," he says. Routine prenatal and pregnancy care, now the purview of the gynecologist-obstetrician, would be handled by midwives, while high- risk pregnancies and deliveries would be assigned to the appropriate specialists...
Many medical experts, however, remain skeptical. Dr. Thomas Easterling, who teaches obstetrics at the University of Washington, believes the idea of fetal improvement is possible but doubts Logan's claims for his belt. Parents who try the tapes, says Dr. Kathryn Clark, a San Francisco obstetrician and mother of a one-year-old, are "highly motivated people who would have been doing some kind of nurturing anyway." Also, she points out, prenatals do respond to sound and become restless, but "we don't necessarily know that they like it. They might want to get away from...
...deliver their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
...doctor today how he or she feels about the current Administration and you could easily get an earful. "I'm frustrated," says Dr. Sherman Elias, director of the division of reproductive genetics at the University of Tennessee. "We're mad," says Dr. Carol Kurz, an obstetrician-gynecologist at a Los Angeles hospital. "The Bush Administration has overstepped its bounds," says Dr. Allan Rosenfield, dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia University. "And medicine is strongly and unanimously opposed...
...galling because it came from an Administration many had supported. Says Alan Altman, a gynecologist in Brookline, Mass.: "((The government)) bothers me in the pocketbook, it bothers me in the delivery room, but it has never before bothered me in the consultation room." Dr. Laura Sirott, a Pasadena, Calif., obstetrician- gynecologist who describes herself as a past supporter of Bush, complains that the gag rule violates a patient's right to be fully informed. "This is absurd. I don't think abortion should be a political issue...