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Recent Examples of midwife
For decades, Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Hospital had served as the maternity hospital for Sixteenth Street midwives when their patients, including Amillianna's mother, were ready to deliver.
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Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
The big picture: Roughly 5,000 health care workers — including physicians, nurses and midwives — at eight Providence hospitals and six clinics plan to go on an open-ended strike starting Friday morning.
—Meira Gebel, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Babies delivered by midwives are more likely to be born vaginally, less likely to require intensive care, and more likely to breastfeed, the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative has found.
—Ronnie Cohen, Sacramento Bee, 8 Jan. 2025
The popular medical drama follows the heartwarming tale of life in London’s impoverished East End, as a group of midwives welcome new lives and care for the community in the changing times of the 1950s and 1960s.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
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Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
The big picture: Roughly 5,000 health care workers — including physicians, nurses and midwives — at eight Providence hospitals and six clinics plan to go on an open-ended strike starting Friday morning.
—Meira Gebel, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Babies delivered by midwives are more likely to be born vaginally, less likely to require intensive care, and more likely to breastfeed, the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative has found.
—Ronnie Cohen, Sacramento Bee, 8 Jan. 2025
The popular medical drama follows the heartwarming tale of life in London’s impoverished East End, as a group of midwives welcome new lives and care for the community in the changing times of the 1950s and 1960s.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
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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
Noun
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The meeting underscored that Vatican operations continue, even as doctors caution that the 88-year-old pope's prognosis remains uncertain.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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The 32-year-old actor was born in a town outside of Moscow, to a family of engineers and doctors.—
Mandalit del Barco,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Seattle-area stands out as one of the nation's top-paying metros, delivering big salaries for top earners like obstetricians, pilots, and IT managers, according to a new report.—
Christine Clarridge,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
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The obstetricians who sued said there is an undercurrent of fear when working with someone with pregnancy complications.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
17 Oct. 2024
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Hospital admissions: At hospitals, give psychiatric nurse practitioners the power to admit patients involuntarily if a physician concurs.—
Benjamin Oreskes,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida and a physician, is awaiting Senate confirmation.—
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Banijay rolls into the Screenings with the aforementioned Maigret, a doc on the 7/7 London Bombings and a new dating format, 30 Dates 30 Nights, among its key priorities across drama, factual, entertainment.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2025
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One question will no doubt be on most viewers’ minds: Can a doc like this sustain one’s interest for 324 minutes, even with an intermission?—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Anecdotally, kids who get the flu seem more miserable from the symptoms than usual, though those with uncomplicated cases typically don’t go to a doctor, said Dr. Hector De Leon, a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente’s Fort Collins location.—
Meg Wingerter,
The Denver Post,
17 Feb. 2025
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Currently, the Autism Society encourages all children to be screened for signs of autism by their family pediatrician three times by the age of three -- at nine, 18, and 24 or 30 months.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
13 Feb. 2025
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Laparoscopies are usually performed by a general surgeon, gynecologist, or gastroenterological surgeon (a surgeon who specializes in the digestive system).—
Heidi Cope,
Health,
18 Feb. 2025
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For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit filed this week by six women.—
Anabel Sosa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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Five people—four of whom were unconscious—were pulled from the sinking vessel, with three later being declared dead by hospital medics.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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Hours later, medics rushed the detainee to a health clinic at the base, where a doctor ordered him transferred to a hospital, according to the indictment.—
Adam Rasgon,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midwife. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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