Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of using womb sounds to calm unruly newborns was first explored by the British and Japanese but did not hit the commercial big tune until Entrepreneurs Bob Bissett and Marie Shields teamed with Fort Lauderdale Obstetrician William Eller in 1975. Eller selected as their recording artist a nonsmoking, well-nourished pregnant woman, waited until she began labor and then inserted a tiny microphone through her dilated cervix into her uterus...
...treatments are staggering. Samples: in 1969 Massachusetts General Hospital charged $80 a day for a semiprivate room. Now the bill is $189 a day. Ten years ago, a baby could be delivered at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for $350 in hospital bills, exclusive of the obstetrician's fee. But when 6-lb. Priscilla W. was born there in a fine uncomplicated delivery, she cost her parents $2,800?more than $450 a pound?$1,300 of that for the hospital...
Lowe felt dutybound to bring charges, even though the 1974 statute mandating care by physicians had been passed primarily to protect women from quacks. Obstetrician Nicholas Kafoglis, who served as a state representative when the general assembly passed the law, testified at Pitchford's trial, "I think this was no crime; it was very poor judgment...
...suspended in 1975, that are designed to show if there is any increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities when human eggs are fertilized in the test tube rather than in the body. Commenting on the delays forced upon American researchers by what is, in effect, an unofficial federal moratorium, U.C.L.A. Obstetrician Jaroslav Marik bitterly notes that "if all the pulls and pressures had not been applied, there might be an American woman now about to deliver" a test-tube baby...
...move," said the obstetrician's other attorney, Charles Weedman, "that we immediately stop the jury from deliberating...