Sentences with phrase «of women physicians»

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Since Election Day, Philadelphia physician Rhea Powell has marched with other women in Washington, protested in her home town against the potential repeal of Obama's health care law and joined in airport demonstrations against Trump's immigration restrictions.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

«Women's health,» Dr. Mielnik told me, «is the only area of medicine where physicians have stopped trying to diagnose and treat appropriately the underlying causes of a woman's reproductive health problem» and as healthcare consumers, we have allowed this to happen by not expecting more.»

Using the traction created between the mouth of the cervix and the pull of the forceps, the physician dismembers the fetal part which has been brought into the vagina, and removes it from the woman's body.

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

The idea of a woman and her personal physician deliberating about the choice is a fantasy: women are going to specialized abortion clinics that offer little support or counseling.

That we, as physicians, are responsible for the care and well being of both our pregnant woman patient and her unborn child.

Some physicians, however, refuse to perform abortions and / or provide contraceptives precisely because in their view, having examined the empirical evidence, such as the recent Royal College of Psychiatrists statement on women's mental health and abortion, these practices contradict the best interests of their patients.

In the winter of 1996, while I was studying the record of Jack Kevorkian's first forty - seven physician - assisted suicides, I received a letter from a woman I did not know named Martha Wichorek.

Other physicians are struggling to alert women to the seriousness of the surgery.

In anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic women — scholars, professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing mission.

Perhaps an English physician would have felt every hair of his wig bristle upon his head with astonishment at hearing me this morning ask a woman in a fever, how her bark and her barbecued pig had agreed with her.

Dr. Miriam Labbok, a physician and director for the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, also explains that placement of the implant behind the muscle puts less pressure on a woman's mammary glands as opposed to placing the implant above the muscle.

Because ACOG has created its position on home births based on much of the data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this study as a reference for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.

that doesn't mean that for the vast majority of women the drugs isn't safe or appropriate when prescribed by a physician.

An obstetrician or OB is a physician or surgeon that is qualified to practice obstetrics - the care of women during pregnancy or childbirth.

Similarly, if the physician believes that performing a cesarean would be detrimental to the overall health and welfare of the woman and her fetus, he or she is ethically obliged to refrain from performing the surgery.

In the case of an elective cesarean delivery, if the physician believes that cesarean delivery promotes the overall health and welfare of the woman and her fetus more than does vaginal birth, then he or she is ethically justified in performing a cesarean delivery.

Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of birth across all settings is more important than ever given disparities in women's access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to other industrialized countries.

Maybe, just maybe, these physicians are trying to save women and children from this Luddite fantasy that the «good» old days of a century ago — when childbirth was the most dangerous time point in a woman's life — are something we should aspire to recreate.

Women who planned a home birth were at reduced risk of all obstetric interventions assessed and were at similar or reduced risk of adverse maternal outcomes compared with women who planned to give birth in hospital accompanied by a midwife or physiWomen who planned a home birth were at reduced risk of all obstetric interventions assessed and were at similar or reduced risk of adverse maternal outcomes compared with women who planned to give birth in hospital accompanied by a midwife or physiwomen who planned to give birth in hospital accompanied by a midwife or physician.

Dr. Sirchio is passionate as a physician and post-graduate educator in her support of women's health.

It is our philosophy that decisions regarding each woman's care are informed and collaborative, and ultimately hers to make; however, rare emergent situations may arise in which the professional judgment of the midwife and / or consulting physician must be relied on exclusively for the safety of mother and baby.

I think that gives the midwives the luxury of having extra time to spend on normal concerns that women have in pregnancy about the correct diet, help with exercise, questions about travel, questions about integrating older siblings into the arrival of a new baby, many kinds of normal things that we really just have the luxury of getting into in a deeper way than physicians may, who are dealing with more medical complications.

Only when midwives and obstetricians start working in partnership, and valuing each other's roles in supporting women, do we see women offered genuine choices, and offered the best care for themselves and their unborn baby (One example of research supporting this: Colter 2014, «Midwife - Physician collaboration — a conceptual framework for inter-professional collaborative practice»).

It is very important during this time that care be given to a healthy pregnancy diet, consultation with the physician as to the use of prenatal vitamins or changes to any medications a woman is taking.

Part of the training of a midwife is to observe and be watchful for deviations from normal health throughout the pregnancy and labor, and, if necessary, refer the woman to a physician.

And I think, again, I see the model practice as one that gives the woman the greatest number of choices, a model practice where you actually have the time and the capacity on the patient's part to understand the risks and benefits of each of the subsequent choices to have a relatively smooth system, which can transfer from one model of birth to another without extensive delays and then — and so I think giving the mom the greatest number of choices and having midwives and physicians speaking to each other at the time of either the initial patient's choice for method of delivery or at the beginning of the labor process.

The bad news is that many physicians and therapists are unaware of common issues for women.

[8] The biologist and physician Linnaeus, the English doctor Cadogan, [9] Rousseau, and the midwife Anel le Rebours described in their writings the advantages and necessity of women breastfeeding their own children and discouraged the practice of wet nursing.

No one knows the exact reason why pregnant women have such a strong sense of smell, so, like most pregnancy symptoms, most physicians just chalk it up to the increase in pregnancy hormones.

In 1582, the Italian physician Geronimo Mercuriali wrote in De morbis mulieribus (On the diseases of women) that women generally finished breastfeeding an infant exclusively after the third month and entirely around 13 months of age.

At the time, women would never have imagined going to a physician (almost all of whom were men) for advice about breastfeeding.

After PGS, the physician at our Virginia fertility center will plan a frozen embryo transfer cycle and transfer one of the embryos that has been deemed genetically normal into a woman's uterus.

There are some good lactation consultants, according to Krystal Revai, a fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, but if a woman has chronic low milk supply, she should seek the help of an ABM physician, a doctor with breast - feeding expertise.

As time went on however, women began to choose physicians more frequently than midwives, and physicians would often prohibit relatives and friends from being part of the birthing process.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

Though the physicians» associations were, obviously, up in arms over the decision women were ecstatic to have one more freedom of choice handed to them.

1987 «Obstetric Training as a Rite of Passage,» in Obstetrics in the United States: Woman, Physician, and Society, Robert Hahn, ed.

During my anthropological career, I have conducted well over 400 tape - recorded interviews with diverse individuals and groups, including pregnant women and mothers, nurses, midwives, obstetricians, holistic physicians, legislators, aerospace engineers, and key figures in the development of the American space program.

One study found that women under the care of family physicians with a low mean use of epidurals were less likely to receive monitoring and Pitocin, to deliver by cesarean, and to have their baby admitted to newborn special care.119

Considering induction of labor and intrapartum interventions, our results are in line with previous studies showing that midwife - led care for low - risk women reduces the risk of some interventions when compared to obstetrician - or physician - led care [1,4,8,9].

As a Family Physician my work is largely focused on the care of pregnant women and newborn babies.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) represents the physicians who are experts in women's health.

By expanding the pools of midwives who are qualified and family physicians who are supportive of providing opportunity for women to have their babies with limited medical intervention (if any), the costs for childbirth health care will drop significantly.

We obtained similar findings for women who reported prenatal appointments that lasted between 15 — 30 minutes: those with midwives had median MADM scores of 39, and those cared for by OBs scored 34.5 and those with family physicians scored 33.

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For sample Pregnancy 1, women who saw midwives with appointment times of < 15 minutes had a median MADM score of 30, compared to a median MADM score of 23 among those who saw obstetricians, and 22 among women who saw family physicians during short appointments.

Of the 2514 care provider experiences reported, 68.5 % (n = 1723) related to midwifery care, 19.9 % (n = 500) to care provided by family physicians, and 11.6 % (n = 291) to obstetric care; 9.7 % (n = 243) care provider experiences were submitted by women who were pregnant at the time of data collectioOf the 2514 care provider experiences reported, 68.5 % (n = 1723) related to midwifery care, 19.9 % (n = 500) to care provided by family physicians, and 11.6 % (n = 291) to obstetric care; 9.7 % (n = 243) care provider experiences were submitted by women who were pregnant at the time of data collectioof data collection.