Word: obstetricians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still fairly slow and cumbersome. Most also require experimental animals. The tests using rabbits take 48 hours; the standard frog test takes twelve hours, and the newer frog test (TIME, March 21) two hours. A skin test takes five days and is not very accurate. Last week Northwestern University Obstetrician Garwood C. Richardson announced a chemical test that requires no animals, takes only half an hour at most, is 100% accurate, and works within three weeks after conception...
...British obstetrician reasoned it out, childbirth is a natural process, and should not be painful. He decided that the pain that does come with normal birth is caused by fear. Fear causes tension, he explained, and tension causes the muscles of the uterus to work against one another, which causes pain...
...weeks, Buckingham Palace had been made ready for the event. In an improvised but immaculate delivery room on the second floor, hospital equipment rented from a local supply house stood scrubbed and sterilized. Each day the healthy young expectant mother had been given a going-over by beetle-browed Obstetrician Sir William Gilliatt...
...lovely children, and I'm expecting a third, all of them conceived artificially. It was only after several years of childless marriage that my husband and I discovered, to our astonishment, that he was sterile. Had it not been for the sympathetic cooperation of a certain obstetrician we would have had to remain childless, and thus ruin our whole future happiness, or else undertake the difficult and uncertain business of adoption-an alternative which is full of psychological problems for both parents and children, and certainly no completely satisfactory substitute for bearing and raising your...
...Hospital Suite was also written by a doctor: Philadelphia's Dr. Herman M. Parris. Manhattan's 70-piece Doctors' Orchestral Society had its usual professional troubles rehearsing it: the oboist-obstetrician turned up late the evening he delivered three babies; the clarinetists and violinists were occasionally called out on emergencies...