Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, D.C., who works in a law office. She contracted herpes in 1978 and complains about its vexing propensity for popping up at inopportune moments: "It knows exactly when you're going away, or when you're really looking forward to something." Says Dr. David Baker, a New York obstetrician: "Stress can reactivate the illness. It may just feed upon itself and create a vicious cycle...
Michelle Harrison had been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel...
...maternal preoccupations and particularly of her part-time status (though she received only half-pay for two-thirds time). "If you aren't willing to give up your child," she was told by a department head at another hospital, "you don't deserve to be an obstetrician-gynecologist...
Today that view has changed. "I even hate to use that term now," says Washington, D.C., Obstetrician William Gold. "We've learned that women over 35 can have normal pregnancies. Age is not necessarily a problem...
...reversal has come about because of changes both in medicine and in women. The boom in fitness programs has put women over 30 into better shape than ever before. At Baylor College of Medicine, Obstetrician Robert Franklin sees would-be mothers at 40 "in fabulous condition. They're in better health than many younger women." The popular concern for good nutrition has also made a difference. According to Reproductive Biologist Cecil Jacobson, improved diets help "conserve reproductive capacities...