Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most scientists dismissed his plan as kooky; several U.S. states and 19 European countries outlawed it. But a year later, Seed insists that he is undeterred. He claims to have a partner, an obstetrician-gynecologist, but he won't name him or the three other scientists who he says make up his team. When pressed, he concedes that his colleagues are currently spending no more than 10 hours a week on the project. After all, they have day jobs...
Thank you for writing about the desperate situation of famine in Sudan [WORLD, July 27]. You made me think about life and death. Children are our hope. And that is why I work as an obstetrician. We have to do our best to save the children in Sudan. TOMOMI OZAKI, M.D. Yokohama, Japan...
...right? "We found that the truth was somewhere in between," says Dr. Steven Bloom, an obstetrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the lead author of the study. Bloom and his colleagues examined 1,067 moms-to-be with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full...
...this stress has inspired corporations like AT&T and Boeing to recruit poets and other spiritual gurus to help managers cope creatively. "I teach people to find a special, still place inside themselves," purrs Richard Sandore, an obstetrician turned Andean shaman healer who founded a company called Soaring Spirit Inc. As a practitioner of "energy healing," Sandore works with Chicago-area businesses to tap the intuition and wholeness "that produced the works of Shakespeare and turned Microsoft into a billion-dollar giant within a decade...
...marshalling its forces once again, as if some socialist, Swedish-type system were about to land on these shores. It's girding to defeat several pending bills that would correct some marketplace excesses. A provision in one bill would ensure that a woman could have direct access to an obstetrician (a specialist, after all) throughout her pregnancy. Another would allow emergency care anytime a "prudent layperson" would consider it appropriate. Another would remove bonuses for doctors who restrict care...