Word: obstetrician
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...lesson for me as an expectant father (my first child is due in June) is that couples should talk to their doctor about episiotomy long before they get into a delivery room. If you would prefer not to have one, say so. My wife's obstetrician, I was pleased to hear, rarely, if ever, performs one, and most of his colleagues don't either...
William J. Shapiro is a retired obstetrician who now lives alongside a golf course in a gated community like so many others in Florida. But exactly 60 years ago, Shapiro lived behind gates of another sort...
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...