Word: obstetrician
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What to do about it? Childbirth must be made safer at home through more nurse-midwives who can work with doctors and recognize quickly any sign of abnormality that requires an expert obstetrician. Hospitals must be redesigned to remove "the redolence of pathology" found in present maternity wards; doctors must be trained to care for the emotional well-being of mothers, babies-and fathers...
...Cincinnati's Good Samaritan Hospital, Obstetrician Joseph Crotty had trouble believing his ears. He thought he heard a baby's cry issuing from the abdomen of a maternity patient. The doctor listened carefully, finally decided that it was, indeed, a baby's cry. An hour later, still wailing lustily, the infant girl was born (and was followed by an unprotesting twin sister). Dr. Crotty had called in other doctors, and so had witnesses to vouch for his story...
Candid Mike eavesdrops on people and records their unguarded remarks for broadcasting. In seven weeks on the air, the show has picked up the meows from a beauty parlor, lurked behind two unsuspecting expectant fathers in an obstetrician's office, listened in on a man's attempts to pick up a girl, argued with a bill collector, recorded what happened when a baby was left on an angry woman's doorstep...
...different ones). The doctor insisted on only one thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...
...artificial insemination decent? Is it humane? One obstetrician who thinks it is both is Johns Hopkins' Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher. Of the 60 cases of artificial insemination presided over in the last decade by Dr. Guttmacher, 34 have resulted in pregnancies. Last week, at a meeting of the Ohio State Medical Association in Cleveland, Dr. Guttmacher discussed and defended his work...