nurse-midwife

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Recent Examples of nurse-midwife The body takes a minimum of 13 weeks to recover, the nurse-midwife Helena A. Grant tells Somerstein. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 18 June 2024 Initially, three teenage boys worked as volunteer transport helpers, caring for FNS’s horses and running errands for the nurse-midwives. Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024 Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician. Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 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 Bruce saw an obstetrician who used nurse-midwives and all her office visits and labs were covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023 The 2023 honor goes to Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife and hospital founder who has spent decades combating female circumcision and working to improve women’s health care in East Africa. Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nurse-midwife
Noun
  • Doula work draws from a history of Black midwives supporting Black pregnant women when segregated hospitals denied them entry.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Warm goose grease, mixed with powerful ingredients known only to midwives, became mothers’ friends in prayer and pregnancy.
    Nash Buckingham, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • If your dry mouth is chronic and/or caused by a Sjogren’s or a side effect of radiation, your doctor may write you a prescription for a drug that increases natural saliva production like pilocarpine (Salagen) or cevimeline (Evoxac).
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 8 July 2025
  • Kimes has been a regular cast member on Married to Medicine, which depicts the lives of women who are either doctors or the partners of doctors, since its second season premiered in 2014.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • One recent study showed that AI flagged high-risk pregnancies weeks earlier than obstetricians.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
  • Her obstetrician wrote a vaccination prescription and sent it to the Safeway pharmacy, but when Haldeman visited the location at 7 p.m. the same day, she was told the pharmacy hadn’t received the prescription.
    Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of foreign medical residents fill gaps in U.S. hospitals The U.S. is projected to face a physician shortage in the next 11 years, per the Assn.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • Perhaps more important is what many physicians do with the results.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Then, one after the other, every gynecologist at the hospital refused to perform the procedure as well.
    Rebecca Grant June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
  • The intra-uterine device is intended to prevent pregnancy and can only be implanted in — and removed from — the uterus by a gynecologist.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 6 June 2025

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“Nurse-midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nurse-midwife. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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