as in physician
a medical professional who specializes in obstetrics
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Recent Examples of obstetrician
The Highland Park obstetrician doesn’t know if there can be any justice after such a heinous act, which left seven dead, four dozen injured and an entire community terrorized and upended.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
No list of exceptions can encompass every situation and risk a patient might face, obstetricians said.
—CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
That relieves pressure on community obstetricians who deliver babies at the hospital and often burn out from deliveries at all hours.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Attended to by her ursine nanny Dulcibear and a goat obstetrician, Elphaba’s entry into the world is greeted with shock.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
No list of exceptions can encompass every situation and risk a patient might face, obstetricians said.
—CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
That relieves pressure on community obstetricians who deliver babies at the hospital and often burn out from deliveries at all hours.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Attended to by her ursine nanny Dulcibear and a goat obstetrician, Elphaba’s entry into the world is greeted with shock.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obstetrician
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Treatments must be administered by a doctor or a physician’s assistant, nurse practitioner, or health care professional with a master’s or doctorate level training in acupuncture and a state license to practice acupuncture.—
Diane Omdahl,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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There are several reasons why these conditions go untreated and undetected—and many of them can be linked to inconvenience, maternal-fetal medicine physicians from some of America's best maternity hospitals told Newsweek.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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Novant Health is incorporating mental health into other aspects of medical care to try to improve rates of early intervention, including asking questions about mental health during check-ups and increasing mental health staffing at doctor’s offices throughout the region.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
21 May 2025
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The Franciscan Health building at 770 Indian Boundary Road houses the Emergency Department and doctors’ offices.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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He is often credited with serving as a midwife for the Catholic Church into the modern world amid political turbulence and competing visions for restructuring the global economy and systems of labor.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
10 May 2025
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That included $3 million that Odia was relying on, in part to pay her midwives.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
5 May 2025
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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
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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
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Armstrong-Jones was accompanied by his best man, Roger Gilliatt, who was the son of the Queen's gynecologist, according to The New York Times.—
Ariana Quihuiz,
People.com,
6 May 2025
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In the 1950s, a Sargent scholar wrote that the American beauty, who was married to a French banker, had an affair with her gynecologist, Samuel-Jean Pozzi, whom Sargent famously painted in a crimson cloak.—
Stephanie Sporn,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2025
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But when the bump got a little bigger the next day, Myles’ father, Rondell Sr., suggested taking him to the pediatrician.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
15 May 2025
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Tightly pulling a black bag over information that could protect a child is like asking parents and pediatricians to drive blindfolded.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
14 May 2025
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Karen Brown/New England Public Media Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts for about 10 years.—
Karen Brown,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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His childhood was spent roaming the halls of the large brick hospital where his mother worked as an internist.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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But within 36 hours of Anderson sharing it on Reddit, more than 450 anesthesiologists, CRNAs and anesthesiologist assistants had contributed.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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TeamHealth, a company that provided Palmetto General and its sister Hialeah Hospital with anesthesiologists for pain-free C-sections and other surgical procedures, also will be off the job at the end of February.—
Verónica Egui Brito and,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Obstetrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstetrician. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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