Word: obstetrician
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Health care, or the lack of it, is a crisis in some women's prisons. The federal system's only hospital for women, in Lexington, Ky., has not consistently employed a full-time obstetrician-gynecologist -- a shocking deficiency given that Justice Department figures show that 1 in 4 women entering prison is pregnant or has recently given birth. Pregnant inmates typically get little or no prenatal care, though many are drug abusers with a high risk of medical complications...
...happened at the Covenant Birthing Center in Anaheim, Calif., where obstetrician Charles Wesley Turner Jr. used forceps to hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft. away, where the nationally televised Praise the Lord program was being filmed. Turner may have hoped to display Myra as one of 1990's first babies. Alas, the lights and cameras had been turned off at midnight. Although Turner says the baby was in no danger from his Hollywood-style obstetrics...
...unprecedented procedure was performed by two prominent physicians in Lyons: Dr. Jean-Louis Touraine, an immunologist at Edouard-Herriot Hospital, and Dr. Daniel Raudrant, an obstetrician at Hotel Dieu Hospital. The doctors wanted to treat David while he was still in his mother's womb because they thought if the procedure was done early, it would have better odds of succeeding. They took 7 cc of liquid, containing about 16 million immune cells from the liver and thymus of two aborted fetuses, and injected the material into David's umbilical cord. After he was born, David received an injection...
...postponers are those who refuse to make a decision, allowing relationships, professional commitments and finally nature to make the choice for them. Dr. Karen Rohde, 40, a suburban Chicago obstetrician, has some regrets about not having had kids, but is devoted to medicine and her second marriage, to a man with grown children. "Time got away from me," explains Rohde. "I never made a firm commitment to say no to having children. Now I've decided it is not going to happen. Whenever I see a particularly sweet-looking baby, I just think of what they're like when...
...interest over his investment in a cable-television company, charges by a congressional committee that he ordered the destruction of documents while he worked at the Justice Department, allegations that he improperly sidetracked rules to limit the use of cancer-causing asbestos, and the revelation that his wife, an obstetrician, performed two abortions while in medical training...