How to Use obstetric in a Sentence
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That is, in part, due to losing access to obstetric wards.
—IndyStar, 16 Nov. 2021
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That's called doing an obstetric exam, to see if the cow is fertile.
—Alison Rose, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2014
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About 39% of counties don’t have a single obstetric provider.
—Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
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Data published by the March of Dimes last week show that access to obstetric services across the state remains robust.
—Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
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At least 4,300 are believed to be at risk of death and in need of emergency obstetric care, including C-sections.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 23 May 2023
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Severe says Jackson North is also planning to open an obstetric ER in the next few months, and if all goes well, offer water births at the center by 2025.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
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Eleven of Wisconsin's rural obstetric units have closed in the past decade, including Neillsville's.
—Parker Schorr, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2019
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Exceptions can be made for pediatric patients, those at end of life and for obstetric patients.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
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More than 2 million women live in counties with no birth center or other obstetric care.
—Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
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About half of women who live in rural areas must travel more than 30 minutes to an obstetric hospital, according to the March of Dimes.
—TIME, 7 May 2024
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Rural hospitals and obstetric wards, already scarce, have shut down in record numbers.
—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
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Some 6 percent of these deaths are from obstetric fistulas, and for each of those deaths, as many as four to five more women will live with an obstetric fistula injury.
—Ashley Judd, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
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The lawsuits in Tennessee and Idaho, a state where there has been an exodus of obstetric specialists in the past year, include physician plaintiffs.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
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Sadly, a lot of that is rooted in mistreatment and disrespect and obstetric violence in health care setting.
—Rayna Reid, Essence, 17 Apr. 2022
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For some women, the time and distance from hospitals with the resources and specialists to handle an obstetric emergency can be fatal.
—Betsy McKay and Paul Overberg, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
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In Texas, a woman and her partner may be unable to have children because of delays and dangerous complications to her obstetric care.
—Jen Stark, Fortune, 20 June 2023
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More than half the counties in the state can be classified as maternity-care deserts, according to a 2023 report from the March of Dimes, meaning there are no birthing facilities or obstetric providers.
—Time, 14 Aug. 2023
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The hospital where one patient, a 42-year-old mother of four, delivered her babies no longer offers obstetric services.
—Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
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The general sentiment among pregnant women and midwives was that the method provided more agency, and in turn led to better obstetric outcomes.
—Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
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More than a third of counties in Alabama lack hospitals with labor and delivery units or practicing obstetric providers, according to a report last year from the March of Dimes.
—Bracey Harris, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
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Each additional day, her doctor has told her, makes their birth less likely to require an obstetric or neonatal intervention that might not be available in Gaza.
—Claire Porter Robbins, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2023
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Some obstetric practices will hand the birthing process over to partner midwives if expectant mothers express a wish for an unmedicated birth.
—David Howard, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
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More than half of rural counties, home to more than 2 million women of reproductive age, don’t have hospital obstetric services.
—Popular Science, 25 June 2020
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Researchers examined 7,548 women who were part of Allina Health clinics, the largest provider of obstetric services in Minnesota.
—Priya Iyer, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2021
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There, doctors decided Ellie needed to be transferred to a hospital with obstetric providers.
—Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
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To prevent this, Jefferson brought on eight Hahnemann ob-gyns and expanded its obstetric unit.
—Chris Pomorski, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
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Former employees of the unit have told The Washington Post that plans were already in the works to eliminate obstetric services before regulators acted.
—Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
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Counties with a high proportion of Black residents are more likely to lose obstetric services, and rural Black women's maternal death rate is triple that of their white counterparts.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 29 Apr. 2023
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An estimated 2 million women and girls in Africa live with obstetric fistula.
—Fox News, 2 July 2018
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In labor and delivery, that means obstetric specialists are available purely to respond to patients who come to the hospital, rather than juggling those cases with clinic visits.
—Rae Ellen Bichell, oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2022
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