Word: obstetricians
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After waiting almost 18 months for his money, the Rome obstetrician who delivered Ingrid Bergman's son by Roberto Rossellini sued for $4,000. In Manhattan, meanwhile, Ingrid's former husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom and their daughter Jenny Ann, who used to be called Pia, boarded the Queen Mary en route to Sweden, where Ingrid will have a chance to see her daughter for the first time since her great romance separated them...
...return for having her hospital bills paid, Mrs. James Gallagher, wife of a McKee City roofer, agreed to have her fifth baby before the cameras. At 1:30, the baby's head became visible on the screen. After a few more minutes Philadelphia Obstetrician John C. Ullery began to think about using forceps to speed the birth and ease the pain. Mrs. Gallagher, wide awake and sipping Coca-Cola, had had only light caudal anesthesia...
...Graham has a literary touch as deft as a surgeon's. "To call an obstetrician to an obstructed labor in a modern maternity hospital may seem very different from calling in a witch-doctor to primeval hut," he says. "The words and the rites . . . have become more specialized, as has the method of payment. The occasion, however, has not altered at all and for that matter the obstetrician has not much more idea than the shaman why that particular child should try to be born sideways...
...page first issue is full of how-to-do-its (freeze strawberries, rewire lamps, earn money at home, arrange flowers, etc.), and the kind of clinical fiction housewives seem to love. The leading story is a cheerful piece on a day in the life of an obstetrician, by Old Standby Faith Baldwin. Sample quote: "If she proved to have a generally contracted pelvis, the measurements and the X ray would chart his course of action-a low Caesarean section, he hoped." Concludes the doctor at day's end: "What a wonderful job I have, what a wonderful life...
...whole week Darrell and Rhoda Labrenz had rejected the appeals of their own obstetrician, Dr. William Wieand, and city health authorities, to allow a transfusion. In that week the brain might have been seriously damaged. Said Dr. Wieand: "We won't be able to tell a thing about that for eight or nine months." Darrell Labrenz, stubbornly opposed to all that had been done for Cheryl, said: "Those who forced the issue are the ones who are responsible for sinning." Said Rhoda Labrenz simply: "Of course I want my baby to live. And I pray that she does...