as in physician
a medical professional who specializes in obstetrics
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Recent Examples of obstetrician
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.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
No list of exceptions can encompass every situation and risk a patient might face, obstetricians said.
—CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
That relieves pressure on community obstetricians who deliver babies at the hospital and often burn out from deliveries at all hours.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Attended to by her ursine nanny Dulcibear and a goat obstetrician, Elphaba’s entry into the world is greeted with shock.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
No list of exceptions can encompass every situation and risk a patient might face, obstetricians said.
—CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
That relieves pressure on community obstetricians who deliver babies at the hospital and often burn out from deliveries at all hours.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Attended to by her ursine nanny Dulcibear and a goat obstetrician, Elphaba’s entry into the world is greeted with shock.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for obstetrician
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obstetrician
Noun
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The best physicians could advise was a near-starvation diet that reduced Thompson to only 65 pounds.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
3 May 2025
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The fact is, some physicians will regularly reevaluate whether a patient should continue their meds or not while others will take a more conservative approach, Dr. DeYoung says.—
Carolyn L. Todd,
SELF,
2 May 2025
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During the proceedings, and while her doctor was testifying about Ozturk's asthma diagnosis, a lawyer appearing alongside her in Louisiana said Ozturk was suffering from an asthma attack, and she was briefly excused for 10 minutes.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
10 May 2025
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Of women in the sandwich generation with a family history of heart disease, only one-third (35%) asked their doctor to assess their heart risk and only 44% talked about it with their family.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
9 May 2025
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In Hart’s case, that person was their midwife, Racha Tahani Lawler Queen.—
Stephanie Long,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Grenier says that when their baby boy arrived after a few hours of labor, only mom and dad were in the room — the midwife joined them later — as their older son, Seiko Aurelius, was asleep in the other room.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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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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Initially, three teenage boys worked as volunteer transport helpers, caring for FNS’s horses and running errands for the nurse-midwives.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2024
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And after moving to Colorado with her partner and setting up a medical appointment, a physician's assistant noticed her ferritin levels weren't rising, and referred her to a gynecologist.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 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
Noun
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Kevin Anderson, once a respected pediatrician, got to know Burns when he was incarcerated — also for murder.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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This ubiquitous access to explicit content on smartphones is a major reason why many psychologists and pediatricians recommend waiting until eighth grade or even later before giving a child a smartphone.—
Michaeleen Doucleff,
NPR,
30 Apr. 2025
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Karen Brown/New England Public Media Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts for about 10 years.—
Karen Brown,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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His childhood was spent roaming the halls of the large brick hospital where his mother worked as an internist.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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But within 36 hours of Anderson sharing it on Reddit, more than 450 anesthesiologists, CRNAs and anesthesiologist assistants had contributed.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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TeamHealth, a company that provided Palmetto General and its sister Hialeah Hospital with anesthesiologists for pain-free C-sections and other surgical procedures, also will be off the job at the end of February.—
Verónica Egui Brito and,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Obstetrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstetrician. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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