Word: obstetrician
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Eleven years ago, an obstetrician in Salt Lake City, Utah, delivered a brand-spanking-new franchise into the world. Noting that pregnant women seemed to have an insatiable appetite for ultrasound images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with...
...widely from retailer to retailer. "You want someone there who can actually interpret the ultrasound for you, so you don't go away either frightened by something you think you saw or, worse, reassured that things are fine when in fact there's something wrong," says Riley. Many an obstetrician has seen patients who have spent sleepless nights worrying after being told--incorrectly--by a keepsake-ultrasound technician that their baby may have a major defect...
...Coburn has anyone to thank for his election to the Senate, it may not be Tom Coburn. A hard-right conservative in hard-right Oklahoma ought not to have too much trouble against a Democratic opponent. But Coburn, an obstetrician and former Congressman, got into trouble with a slightly batty warning about "rampant" lesbianism in rural Oklahoma, as well as a 14-year-old, unproven claim that he once sterilized a patient without her consent. Still, he survived, and it was policies and politics more than personality that saved...
...morning-after pill increases a woman’s control over her own reproduction and it is medically safe to offer it over-the-counter. Dr. Paul Blumenthal, an obstetrician who heads contraceptive research and programs at Johns Hopkins University’s Bayview medical center, told the Associated Press that “It meets all the criteria that would ordinarily have to be met by any other over- the-counter drugs. You could probably argue this is safer than aspirin...
...Strong, 41 and eight months pregnant, lies down on four armless chairs shoved together in the far corner of a conference room at Montefiore Medical Center's Comprehensive Family Care facility in the Bronx, N.Y. She lifts up her T shirt, lowers her pants and watches obstetrician Liza Kunz squirt gel on her big, full belly. As the doctor slides a fetal heart monitor across her skin, Strong isn't the only one listening carefully for the reassuring sound of a baby's heartbeat. Gathered in the room with her are four equally pregnant women. They all arrived...