Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another reason for the midwife's growing popularity is the quality of care she is able to provide her patients. Some doctors feel it unnecessary to remain with their patients from the beginning of labor to its conclusion; midwives stay with theirs throughout the entire process. They can also perform other important services, providing prenatal care for the mother as well as postnatal care for her and her child, and advising on family planning and hygiene. Says Ruth Freeman, professor emeritus of Johns Hopkins University: "Midwifery focuses on health rather than illness, on helping families to deal with their...
...Laws. The laws on midwifery vary from state to state, but generally a nurse trained in the profession may deliver a baby unaided as well as give local anesthetics, perform minor obstetric surgery and fit contraceptives. Midwives work in maternity clinics connected with hospitals as well as in homes, but wherever they work, a doctor must be always on call in case of emergency. Several states even require that a doctor be in the room when a baby is delivered, no matter how normal the circumstances. In a speech to last week's convention, Dr. Roger Egeberg, special assistant...
Small also charged that Josiah A. Spaulding, a part-owner of the hospital was using "his influence with the Nixon Administration" to have the Selective Service take punitive action against striking conscientious objectors who had agreed to perform alternative service at the hospital...
...merely coincidence that Crittenton House was dropped from the budget the same year that they applied to the state for a license to perform abortions," he said...
...They tell-us not to perform the sacred ceremonies that we have handed down from generation to generation--they tell us it all evil devil-worship, and that we're going to go to hell," he said. "God made us, but the missionaries seem to think God hasn't completed His job Mohawks have hair and ten fingers like everyone else...