as in physician
a medical professional who specializes in obstetrics
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Recent Examples of obstetrician
As a teen-ager during the Cultural Revolution, she was relocated to the countryside for two and a half years of physical labor, then went to medical school and returned to her home town to become an obstetrician.
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Connecticut ranked 30th for rates paid to obstetricians and 42nd for those covering other services.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2024
Florida’s emergency physicians and obstetricians had already been grappling with scenarios like Anya’s, when the state’s more restrictive law went into place.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2024
But although there is certainly chemistry in the central pairing, Joy is more of an offbeat buddy movie, which is emphasized by the introduction of obstetrician Patrick Steptoe, played rather wonderfully by Bill Nighy.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Connecticut ranked 30th for rates paid to obstetricians and 42nd for those covering other services.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2024
Florida’s emergency physicians and obstetricians had already been grappling with scenarios like Anya’s, when the state’s more restrictive law went into place.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2024
But although there is certainly chemistry in the central pairing, Joy is more of an offbeat buddy movie, which is emphasized by the introduction of obstetrician Patrick Steptoe, played rather wonderfully by Bill Nighy.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obstetrician
Noun
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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
Noun
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During the lockdown period of COVID, while suffering from chronic pain from rheumatoid arthritis, O’Neal had been prescribed morphine by a doctor who either didn’t know or didn’t care about her addictions.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Some doctors may be quick to put you on a birth control prescription to help with these symptoms and get your period back on track.—
Mara Santilli,
Flow Space,
26 Feb. 2025
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Marie Leuenberger plays the mother, Julia, with a range of emotions and gets to not only play off Hans Löw, who portrays her partner Georg, but also a midwife, played by Julia Franz Richter, and a doctor is portrayed by a big name, Claes Bang.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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However, the rapid progression of her labor led to an unplanned scenario, with her midwife arriving 20 minutes after the baby was born.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
27 Jan. 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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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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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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The patients of Los Angeles internist and obesity specialist Pooja Gidwani are microdosing GLP-1s as part of a longevity approach.—
Beth Landman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Feb. 2025
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In a case related to fibromyalgia, the opinion of Dr. James Bress, an internist, carried more weight with an insurer than the patient’s rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic.—
Natalie Eilbert,
Journal Sentinel,
19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But such risks are negligible when the procedure is performed properly under the care of a qualified professional (typically an anesthesiologist, but orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, radiologists, and other specialists may perform epidurals as well).—
Stephen C. George,
Discover Magazine,
20 Feb. 2025
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Baumeister claimed the bones came from a skeleton that his late father, an anesthesiologist, obtained in medical school, PEOPLE reported in 1996.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Obstetrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstetrician. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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