Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deliver their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
...doctor today how he or she feels about the current Administration and you could easily get an earful. "I'm frustrated," says Dr. Sherman Elias, director of the division of reproductive genetics at the University of Tennessee. "We're mad," says Dr. Carol Kurz, an obstetrician-gynecologist at a Los Angeles hospital. "The Bush Administration has overstepped its bounds," says Dr. Allan Rosenfield, dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia University. "And medicine is strongly and unanimously opposed...
...galling because it came from an Administration many had supported. Says Alan Altman, a gynecologist in Brookline, Mass.: "((The government)) bothers me in the pocketbook, it bothers me in the delivery room, but it has never before bothered me in the consultation room." Dr. Laura Sirott, a Pasadena, Calif., obstetrician- gynecologist who describes herself as a past supporter of Bush, complains that the gag rule violates a patient's right to be fully informed. "This is absurd. I don't think abortion should be a political issue...
Health care, or the lack of it, is a crisis in some women's prisons. The federal system's only hospital for women, in Lexington, Ky., has not consistently employed a full-time obstetrician-gynecologist -- a shocking deficiency given that Justice Department figures show that 1 in 4 women entering prison is pregnant or has recently given birth. Pregnant inmates typically get little or no prenatal care, though many are drug abusers with a high risk of medical complications...
...happened at the Covenant Birthing Center in Anaheim, Calif., where obstetrician Charles Wesley Turner Jr. used forceps to hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft. away, where the nationally televised Praise the Lord program was being filmed. Turner may have hoped to display Myra as one of 1990's first babies. Alas, the lights and cameras had been turned off at midnight. Although Turner says the baby was in no danger from his Hollywood-style obstetrics...