Word: obstetricians
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...town of General Trias. A good many of the Filipinos are medical professionals, drawn by U.S. salaries and by the provision of the 1965 immigration law that gives preference to the highly skilled. Dr. Federico Quevedo, founder of L.A.'s Confederation of Philippine-United States Organizations, is an obstetrician. Ophthalmologist Lani Quevedo, his wife, is the daughter of a doctor and a pharmacist. "The new immigration laws," explains Federico Quevedo, "take connections and credentials and money...
Atlanta Journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife Cynthia lost their first child, a daughter, in childbirth. A year and a half later, when Cynthia prematurely went into labor with their son Dax after only 22 weeks of pregnancy, the obstetrician warned them that the infant's lungs had almost certainly not developed enough for survival. Extraordinary measures could be tried if the parents wished to subject the baby to the process. Witherspoon's account of their decision...
...hiring an obstetrical nurse-practitioner who provides pre-natal care, offers Pregnancy and New Parent classes, and supplies appropriate educational materials. In addition, the Health Service has been looking into possible participation in the midwifery program at Brigham & Women's Hospital and is planning to employ a third obstetrician (preferably female...
Since the Joint Committee's April grievance was filed, Wacker says he has arranged with Dr. Kenneth J Ryan, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at BWH, to give women on the UHS plan the option of being treated by a BWH nurse midwife instead of by an obstetrician. The midwife option had been in the works for several years, but the grievance probably spend up implementation, says a UHS consumer council member who requested anonymity...
Citing statistics received from an anonymous source, the Med Area's Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW) charged that one of the two UHS obstetrician-gynecologists, Dr. Paul I. Winig '62, had performed too high a proportion of Ceasarian sections...