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...evidence against alcohol is strong enough to warrant strict warnings. But others disagree and doubt that warning signs are justified. Basically, physicians are disputing the degree of alcohol consumption necessary to risk the abnormalities that physicians call FAS, for fetal alcohol syndrome. Says Dr. Robert J. Sokol, an obstetrician at Wayne State University: "It's questionable whether there has ever been a case of an FAS child born to less than a chronically addicted woman." Dr. John Larsen of George Washington University even takes issue with the Surgeon General's findings. There is no evidence, he says, that...
Even so, many physicians prefer to err on the side of caution. "No one knows the risk factors," says Dr. Jokichi Takamine, chairman of the American Medical Association's task force on alcoholism. He believes that pregnant women should abstain completely. Atlanta Obstetrician Donald Block, for one, is delighted with the idea of the warning signs. He says, "Now when I tell pregnant women not to drink, they are prepared...
DIED. John Upton, 84, obstetrician-gynecologist whose interest in transfusions led him in 1940 to design a portable transfusion kit used by the military during World War II to treat thousands of U.S. and British wounded, and in 1941 to co-found the first U.S. nonprofit community blood bank, the Irwin Memorial, which served as a central supplier of blood and plasma to all hospitals in San Francisco; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
...decade ago, when I was ready to leave the hospital with my three-day-old baby, she stared at my obstetrician's colorful tie, and as he began to move back and forth she followed his movements. "You'd almost think she could see," the doctor remarked. Even then I was surprised by his reluctance to accept what he had observed...
...batterer will change and remain loving. Karla Digirolomo, 26, executive director of the New York State Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence, describes her experience in her first marriage as typical. When she was pregnant her husband broke her nose. She told everyone she had fallen down. The obstetrician never questioned the bruises on her body. "I felt worthless, totally to blame, responsible for my husband's actions. I kept thinking, 'If I had done something different, things would improve.' You gradually change. You think, 'If I can stop doing x, y or z, then nothing will happen.' You assume...