plural ob-gyns
: a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology
obstetrics-gynecology
Examples of ob-gyn in a Sentence
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
This puts emergency physicians, ob-gyn doctors and pregnant patients with serious complications in a precarious position.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy.
—Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Sometimes, though, there’s an issue at hand that warrants a trip to an ob-gyn or primary care provider.
—Mara Santilli, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024
The hospital’s labor-and-delivery unit closed years ago, and there is no ob-gyn on site.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Thanks to federal and state parity laws, most insurance companies can’t charge you a much higher co-pay to see a therapist than to see a medical doctor, like a primary care physician or ob-gyn, the HHS explains.
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024
One of the most notable GOP losses of the night was a Republican state senator who works as an ob-gyn.
—Rick Klein, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
When the family practice doctor overseeing the case asked for a peer-to-peer review, the insurance company physician defending the denial was an ob-gyn specialist.
—Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
Noun
Still, the arrival of male contraception is unlikely to dampen women’s enthusiasm for using their own methods, Allison Merz, an ob-gyn at UC San Francisco, told me.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
This puts emergency physicians, ob-gyn doctors and pregnant patients with serious complications in a precarious position.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy.
—Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Sometimes, though, there’s an issue at hand that warrants a trip to an ob-gyn or primary care provider.
—Mara Santilli, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024
The hospital’s labor-and-delivery unit closed years ago, and there is no ob-gyn on site.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Thanks to federal and state parity laws, most insurance companies can’t charge you a much higher co-pay to see a therapist than to see a medical doctor, like a primary care physician or ob-gyn, the HHS explains.
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024
One of the most notable GOP losses of the night was a Republican state senator who works as an ob-gyn.
—Rick Klein, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
When the family practice doctor overseeing the case asked for a peer-to-peer review, the insurance company physician defending the denial was an ob-gyn specialist.
—Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
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ob-gyn
1 of 2 noun
plural ob-gyns
: a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology
OB-GYN
2 of 2 abbreviation
obstetrics-gynecology
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