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New cuts challenge doctors

ATLANTA --- Sandra Reed became an obstetrician because she wanted to deliver babies.Now her Thomasville, Ga., office has added laser treatments and hair removal services...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2011-07-02/new-cuts-challenge-doctors
Doctors warn that efforts to reduce C-sections hold dangers

...deaths among mothers and babies, some obstetricians are warning. In an opinion piece in...higher than for a C-section. The obstetricians said they are concerned about an increase...approach to health care delivery," the obstetricians wrote. "It implies that women should...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/01/07/tec_249529.shtml
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Expectant couples offered the nation's first routine gene tests

...Under new guidelines, obstetricians and gynecologists are supposed...The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is betting...a Princeton, N.J., obstetrician who has offered routine...Certainly it requires the obstetricians to become more familiar...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2001/10/03/tec_323690.shtml
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Rural area lacks health care

...prenatal care. There aren't any obstetricians in this poor, rural county of 21...baby. Baker County not only needs obstetricians but also more dentists, family doctors...department hired a group of Jacksonville obstetricians part-time to see Ms. Adams' patients...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/03/08/met_255526.shtml
Metro
Woman awarded $4.5 million in malpractice case

...S.C. -- Their failure to diagnose a pregnant woman's appendicitis that led to a miscarriage will cost two Upstate obstetricians $4.5 million. Colleen Kendall had to undergo a hysterectomy five days after she gave birth in a toilet at Greenville...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1997/12/12/met_218929.shtml
Metro
Viagra paradox

...their pharmacy plans, although on a limited basis. Yet some obstetrician-gynecologists we've talked with contrast this with the...almost universal refusal to cover female contraception. One obstetrician, writing in The New York Times, says Oxford Health Plan...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/05/14/op_228150.shtml
Opinion columns
News you can use

HOW TO CHOOSE AN OB-GYN One of the most personal decisions a woman has to make is choosing her obstetrician-gynecologist. Sandra McVicker, SVP, Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/09/12/met_143391.shtml
Metro
News you can use

HOW TO CHOOSE AN OB-GYN One of the most personal decisions a woman has to make is choosing her obstetrician-gynecologist. Sandra McVicker, SVP, Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/06/23/met_133325.shtml
Metro
Abortion is Planned Parenthood's 'life's blood'

Regarding the Nov. 8 letter by Daniel Fawaz, "Defends Planned Parenthood's work": I have never met an obstetrician who didn't want a patient to have an ultrasound. Why withhold from a woman the truth about her pregnancy, especially when...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2003/12/06/let_388851.shtml
Letters
New book focuses fresh attention on 1925 Detroit civil rights case

DETROIT -- In September 1925, a successful black obstetrician moved his young family into a spacious east-side home in a predominantly white neighborhood. An angry mob gathered and began...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/05/09/art_415015.shtml
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