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...matter how many books you may have read on the subject of labor and delivery, when you're going through it for the first time, you don't really know what to expect. So, if an obstetrician offers to shorten the time it takes for your baby to be born by making a little incision in the tissue below the birth canal, chances are you'll be tempted to gasp out a yes! The procedure, called an episiotomy, may bring you immediate relief, but it often leads to a longer recovery, more pain and other postdelivery complications. Most...
Among the stories he tells are those of an obstetrician whose marriage is bitterly unraveling as he attempts to prevent a rape victim and her husband from aborting a child, and of a feckless youth who falls asleep on a palette of relief supplies and, dropped into a war zone, discovers his purpose. It is Dizdar's cool objectivity --his refusal to dwell on anyone's troubles (or triumphs)--that makes his portrait of good hearts overcoming emotional Balkanization the best movie of this very young millennium...
Many of Gilroy's residents hope to reach a similar accommodation with their reinvented hospital. The town's five obstetrician-gynecologists sent a letter to the local newspaper asserting that it is "unconscionable, un-Christian, un-Catholic and unwise to deny sterilization services to a community." To be fair, women can travel to another hospital for such services. But the nearest one with comparable facilities is 35 miles away. That's a hardship for a population that is composed largely of poor farmworkers, many of whom have limited transportation. Besides, women like Campos might not have the luxury of time...
...true," he says. "But we know what the rules of gravity are very well. It's very easy to calculate... the tidal effect of the obstetrician on a newborn baby is larger--because it's proportional to the cube of the distance and twice the mass--and nobody asks where that person was standing at the time of their birth...
...Cliff Huxtable (The Cosby Show); obstetrician...