Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctor supported by the AMA, a man who piloted a program to help teenagers avoid unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, an obstetrician with 30 years of experience, draw so much fire so quickly...
Though they are overwhelmingly white and male, the House freshmen--who include an obstetrician, a florist, an accountant, an insurance agent and a onetime member of Sonny and Cher--can claim to be something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back...
...honest with ourselves, we know that we could do much better at preventing abortion," said Fretts, an obstetrician at Beth Israel Hospital. "Although abortion is safer than childbearing, many women could avoid the difficult decision and surgical procedure if contraceptive options were improved and if safe, effective and easy-to-use methods together with family planning were more widely available...
...Shuwarger, a Houston obstetrician, used to work six days a week, seeing about 40 patients a day. But on Jan. 1 he lost 2,100 of his 3,000 regular patients when their employers, seven aerospace companies, joined managed-care networks. When he tried to follow most of his patients into the five plans, he was told they had enough obstetricians and did not need him. Of course, his former patients can continue seeing him if they pay higher deductibles, but very few are doing so. "It's almost enough to make a guy paranoid," he says. "The impression...
...Warrior Marks is a portrayal by an outsider," says Dr. Nahid Toubia, a Sudanese-born obstetrician in New York City. "It suggests, 'I, Alice Walker, save the beautiful children who are being tortured by their own people.' It's like saying Harlem women give their children AIDS because they don't love them. In reality it's more complex." Adds Mohamud: "You can't threaten or dictate to people on this issue. It's not going to stop overnight...