What is "obstetrics"

Usage examples of "obstetrics".

But all her dreams, and everything she holds dear, are threatened when the hospital decides that it would be more profitable to close the obstetrics unit and shift those resources to an expanded cardiac ward.

Only recently had the board asked the vice chair of the obstetrics department to attend the meetings and then just as a supplier of information, not as a voting member.

Was there actually a proposal on the table to close down obstetrics at Berkeley Hills Hospital?

You can close down obstetrics and build up cardiac surgery, or keep obstetrics open, and close down the hospital.

From one of the many bookshelves she removed a leather-bound book on obstetrics written by a British author some thirty years earlier.

He explained to the group that he had called the ad hoc committee to decide if Rae should keep her privileges to practice obstetrics and gynecology at Berkeley Hills Hospital.

Larch chose to be an obstetrician because the loss of his parents inspired him to bring more children into the world, but the road that led Larch to obstetrics was strewn with bacteria.

He became chief of staff of the Boston Lying-in Hospital and was William Lambert Richardson Professor of Obstetrics at Harvard for a number of years.

But why was Edwards, chief of obstetrics and gynecology, with them, and what was he so intent on telling Hamlin that could make the neurosurgeon blanch?

If delivering babies to barren couples was the most lucrative of professions, obstetrics in general was the most litigious.

There was a woman gynecologist in Rochester they shot to death a few years ago who hardly did any abortions at all, performing them only occasionally and in a hospital as part of her obstetrics practice.

Mark remembered him vividly from his days as a resident at NYCH when the man served as outgoing chairman of the Obstetrics Department prior to retirement.

He gave me the name of a col- j league of his, a man who left New York several years ago to j head the obstetrics department at a hospital in Concord.

The case has long been decided in favor of the views I advocated, but, at the time when I wrote two of the most celebrated professors of Obstetrics in this country opposed my conclusions with all the weight of their experience and position.

But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.