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Recent Examples of midwife
Meanwhile, Katharina Pink, PhD, an evolutionary anthropologist and midwife at the Medical University of Vienna, and lead author of the study, believes there may be valuable lessons to learn from macaque births that could help improve approaches to human childbirth.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
Childbirth was $6,000 through a midwife who took cash.
—Alana Semuels, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
Rojas has been a licensed midwife in Texas since 2018, per state records.
—Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Will the midwife face jail time?
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2025
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
Childbirth was $6,000 through a midwife who took cash.
—Alana Semuels, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
Rojas has been a licensed midwife in Texas since 2018, per state records.
—Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Will the midwife face jail time?
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midwife
Noun
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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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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
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In such cases, law-enforcement officers—but also, at times, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel, mostly working for private corporations—watch for days, weeks, and months as ailing people waste away in their care.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Eventually, a third doctor removed it in the operating room.—
Essence,
Essence,
14 Apr. 2025
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Read Next Health & Fitness Idaho has lost 22% of its practicing obstetricians in the last 15 months, report says February 20, 2024 12:18 PM Read Next State Politics Need treatment your doctor doesn’t support?—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
2 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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What’s the statistic there, the average ER physician has to see a patient every three to four minutes?—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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What happens when a bride returning on a flight from her honeymoon – and who is a family medicine physician – starts to feel intense chest pain and nausea and an emergency room physician are on the same flight?—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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The move is designed to help fuel Dorothy St. Pictures’ ambitions to grow its talent pool in the U.K. and U.S. and expand its development of premium nonfiction series and docs, as well as its narrative film slate, to further genres and platforms.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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Birdman also signed off on the docs, indicating the couple is currently in a good space.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This involves talking to your child's pediatrician about allergy management techniques.—
Health Editorial Team,
Health,
18 Apr. 2025
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Toxic algae bloom possibly related to Palisades Fire sickens marine life 02:54 Stephanie Wilcox said her toddler's pediatrician recommended testing their home.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Photo: 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection Jeremy Irons gives his career-best performance as Elliot and Beverly, a pair of successful gynecologists who run a Toronto practice together.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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For the recent study, 150 Swiss women with an average age of 25 were recruited from gynecologists’ practices and the University Hospital Basel’s gynecology outpatient clinic between March 2018 and December 2020.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Mar. 2025
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The medic wasn’t nearby so Lee stepped in to stop the bleeding.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2025
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On Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent released mobile phone footage said to have been recovered from one of the slain medics.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midwife. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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