How to Use obstetrics in a Sentence

obstetrics

noun
  • The obstetrics ward at the hospital closed more than 15 years ago.
    New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The two fourth-year students plan to enter the field of obstetrics and will soon choose where to spend four years of their lives in training.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022
  • Luecke can’t recall a time when the obstetrics unit at Big Bend Regional has closed.
    Charlotte Huff, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2021
  • This isn’t just in the field of obstetrics and gynecology.
    Matt Bowman, National Review, 21 May 2021
  • She was admitted to the obstetrics and gynecology floor for just over a day and then was transferred to the intensive care unit.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Your obstetrics office might also have leads on group support.
    Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The younger is studying to be a physician’s assistant in Fort Worth; the elder is in her second year of an obstetrics residency in Tucson.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Thirty-five years old, with wavy hair piled atop her head, she was known for bicycling from house to house visiting the patients of her private obstetrics practice.
    Bess Lovejoy, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Coates, who practiced obstetrics and gynecology in the central Vermont area in the 1970s, is now retired.
    Wilson Ring, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
  • According to financial records posted at the end of June, the system’s obstetrics discharges were 11 percent behind the forecast, and 8.2 percent lower than the same quarters of the prior year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2021
  • Heidi Gaston, an obstetrics doctor and one of Dorenne Hansen's children, built a wrap-around porch specifically to enjoy the view and the silence of southern Minnesota.
    Scott McFetridge, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Ridgeway joined the Clinic in 2009 as a staff physician in the obstetrics and gynecology department.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Six months later, the kids are taking the SATs, while moms are pacing around the parking lot at the test location like expectant fathers smoking Chesterfields outside an obstetrics unit.
    Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
  • McKelton said she was told the obstetrics services were closed for renovations.
    Dalton Walker, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The patients will range in age from an obstetrics and gynecology facility to a geriatric ward.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2021
  • The December meeting came at a time when the obstetrics ward had been temporarily shut down by health regulators following the death of a pregnant woman.
    Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • All clinicians from obstetrics doctors to pulmonary doctors, everyone needs to learn about this.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Medical City HealthCare has begun testing all of its surgical and obstetrics patients for the virus as well as residents coming in or out of nursing homes.
    Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 7 June 2020
  • At the public hospital in L’Asile, deep in a remote stretch of countryside in the southwest, the obstetrics, pediatric and operating wing collapsed, though everyone made it out.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The way patients engage with the health care system and medical innovations in obstetrics have changed dramatically since the 1940s; the structure of prenatal care has not.
    Rebecca Gourevitch, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021
  • In Arizona, obstetrics health providers are required by law to educate expectant parents about the options to publicly donate or privately bank cord blood.
    Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Melissa Wilson ’17 is an obstetrics float pool nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 7 May 2018
  • Among the professions likely to be most deeply affected is medicine, especially in the obstetrics and gynecology fields.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In at least three other cases, emergency responders delivered babies on the side of the road while driving pregnant mothers to Kansas because the hospital closed its obstetrics unit.
    ProPublica, 2 July 2020
  • Spectrum also is limiting the number of visitors, starting at 6 a.m. Wednesday, to one per adult patient and two for obstetrics and pediatrics, as well as visitors for end-of-life patients, Elmouchi said.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Coates, who practiced in central Vermont in the 1970s, specializing in obstetrics and gynecological care, according to the board, and is facing lawsuits from two women.
    CBS News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Perry said doctors working in obstetrics and gynecology need to boost their efforts to build trust with Black moms by working with health advocates, midwives and doulas to connect with Black communities.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • With the expansion of adding another partner, the private practice in obstetrics and gynecology was known as Doctors Hall, Randall & Chambers.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Wen Shen, an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Medicine, says to prioritize finding a health-care provider who is comfortable guiding you through the process.
    Allyson Chiu, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Steiner practices family medicine with a specialty in obstetrics.
    al, 10 Apr. 2022

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