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  • "Tell her she'll need a cesarean!" a drunk gynecologist had said to her husband while they waited for their change at the gas station.†   (source)
  • After Marley had given the poodle a full gynecological examination, Jenny was able to drag him back into place.†   (source)
  • She secured a room of her own atop the house of a widow, a record player and small collection of vinyl, a circle of acquaintances among the city's free spirits, and a connection to a discreet and nonjudgmental female gynecologist.†   (source)
  • He imagined his project for women—gynecological services, health education, and family planning—to reduce local maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • It is nearly as incredible to believe that the girl's mother would permit her daughter to reach the age of nearly seventeen without consulting a gynecologist concerning the daughter's failure to menstruate.†   (source)
  • They went to see a gynecologist and discovered that Deanna's fallopian tubes had been scarred and that having a child was impossible.†   (source)
  • Oof, girl, the annual gynecologist!†   (source)
  • They made her go to a gynecologist, with Janet calling and then Marian calling, women of the world hooray.†   (source)
  • Shershah Syed, a prominent gynecologist in Karachi, says that he frequently treats young girls from the slums after rapes.†   (source)
  • But I loved it, and how he'd get real quiet if I started talking about an ultrasound or something going on down there after I saw the gynecologist.†   (source)
  • A female gynecologist named Dr. Husa.†   (source)
  • Amanda stopped with a look of horror when they came to the door of the operating room: she had seen the instruments and the gynecological table.†   (source)
  • She chose obstetrics and gynecology instead of his field, internal medicine.†   (source)
  • Jackie lied when he asked how she had suddenly become so knowledgeable, claiming that she had gotten the answers from a priest, a gynecologist, and several very descriptive books.†   (source)
  • Since she got her period, which she knew could have been a miscarriage, she'd been thinking about seeing a doctor, but she didn't know any gynecologists, and she certainly wasn't going to ask her sister to recommend one.†   (source)
  • "I feel like a gynecologist looking at this mess," Tradd said as the act continued toward its wild, concupiscent finale.†   (source)
  • I'm friendly with a prominent gynecologist.†   (source)
  • The largest says that in the twenty-third year of the National Republic, the To Keung School of Midwifery, where she has had two years of instruction and Hospital Practice, awards its Diploma to my mother, who has shown through oral and written examination her Proficiency in Midwifery, Pediatrics, Gynecology, "Medecine," "Surgary," Therapeutics, Ophthalmology, Bacteriology, Dermatology, Nursing, and Bandage.†   (source)
  • Your gynecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.†   (source)
  • The head gynecologist came out of Tonia's ward through the narrow lobby separating it from the corridor.†   (source)
  • 5 (November 1953); and TeLinde, "Carcinoma in Situ of the Cervix," Obstetrics and Gynecology 1, no.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, on his own he was learning everything he could about obstetrics and gynecology.†   (source)
  • He showed Lila and me the speculum he had pilfered from a relative who was a gynecologist.†   (source)
  • The hospital is run by Catherine Hamlin, a gynecologist who is truly a saint.†   (source)
  • There was nothing prurient about his interest in the Version Clinic or in obstetrics and gynecology.†   (source)
  • "Gynecology should be woman!" he rasped, as if I'd broken a fundamental rule.†   (source)
  • But he knows more medicine, certainly more gynecology, than I do.†   (source)
  • "Well, Sims wasn't and neither am I." You are not gynecologist?†   (source)
  • "I'm named after Marion Sims, famous gynecologist?"†   (source)
  • Some years ago he had added to his growing medical program a health project just for women and, lacking a gynecologist on the staff, had made his own quick study of the specialty and for a time practiced it here.†   (source)
  • But the lump tested negative for syphilis, so he told Henrietta she'd better go to the Johns Hopkins gynecology clinic.†   (source)
  • Several, most recently his gynecologist, had gone to work in the States, and some of those had clearly gone to work for Farmer with that aim in mind, to be trained by Doktè Paul, then to emigrate, and he always felt obliged to help them leave.†   (source)
  • She went straight to the waiting room of the gynecology clinic, a wide-open space, empty but for rows of long straight-backed benches that looked like church pews.†   (source)
  • He'd also written one of the most famous clinical gynecology textbooks, which is still widely used sixty years and ten editions after he first wrote it.†   (source)
  • The symposium had been organized in Henrietta's honor by Roland Pattillo, a professor of gynecology at Morehouse who'd been one of George Gey's only African-American students.†   (source)
  • In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had "misinterpreted" and "mislabeled" Henrietta's cancer.†   (source)
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 66, no. 5 (November 1953); and TeLinde, "Carcinoma in Situ of the Cervix," Obstetrics and Gynecology 1, no. 1 (January 1953); also the biog raphy Rich ard Wesley TeLinde, by Howard W. Jones, Georgeanna Jones, and William E. Ticknor.†   (source)
  • Henrietta's medical records, provided to me by her family, are not publicly available, but some information on her diagnosis can be found in Howard W. Jones, "Record of the First Physician to see Henrietta Lacks at the Johns Hopkins Hospital: History of the Beginning of the HeLa Cell Line," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 176, no. 6 (June 1997): S227-S228.†   (source)
  • Sources on the standard treatment regimen for cervical cancer in the 1950s include A. Brunschwig, "The Operative Treatment of Carcinoma of the Cervix: Radical Panhysterectomy with Pelvic Lymph Node Excision," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 61, no. 6 (June 1951); R. W Green, "Carcinoma of the Cervix: Surgical Treatment (A Review)," Journal of the Maine Medical Association 42, no. 11 (November 1952); R. T Schmidt, "Panhysterectomy in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the…†   (source)
  • For documentation of the history of Johns Hopkins (in this and later chapters), see the AMCMA, as well as The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A Chronicle, by Alan Mason Chesney, and The First 100 Years: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, edited by Timothy R. B. Johnson, John A. Rock, and J. Donald Woodruff.†   (source)
  • Chapter 3: Diagnosis and Treatment For information on the development of the Pap smear, see G. N. Papanicolaou and H. F. Traut, "Diagnostic Value of Vaginal Smears in Carcinoma of Uterus," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 42 (1941), and "Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear," by George Papanicolaou and H. Traut (1943).†   (source)
  • Chapter 22: "The Fame She So Richly Deserves" For the paper in which Henrietta's real name was first published, see H. W. Jones, V. A. McKusick, P. S. Harper, and K. D. Wuu, "George Otto Gey (1899–1970): The HeLa Cell and a Reappraisal of Its Origin," Obstetrics and Gynecology 38, no. 6 (December 1971).†   (source)
  • Chapter 6: "Lady's on the Phone" Papers from the first HeLa symposium were published in "The HeLa Cancer Control Symposium: Presented at the First Annual Women's Health Conference, Morehouse School of Medicine, October 11, 1996," edited by Roland Pattillo, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suppl.†   (source)
  • I mean, of course a prison for fourteen hundred women should bring in a female gynecologist, but still!†   (source)
  • As the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics put it in an editorial, emergency obstetric care is the "keystone in the arch of safe motherhood.†   (source)
  • "Maternal deaths in developing countries are often the ultimate tragic outcome of the cumulative denial of women's human rights," noted the journal Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology.†   (source)
  • The hospital manages to have clean sheets, but there are still just two gynecologists in an area with 5 million people.†   (source)
  • I overheard Hema tell Ghosh that Shiva knew more than the average final-year medical student when it came to obstetrics and gynecology.†   (source)
  • He was considered the father of obstetrics and gynecology, the patron saint; in naming me for him, she was both honoring him and giving thanks.†   (source)
  • I'd done three months each in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and now all that remained was a month of pediatrics.†   (source)
  • When she read her Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics (each month's volume arriving by sea mail weeks after publication, bruised and stained in its brown wrapping), the innovations read like fiction.†   (source)
  • Over my shoulder she saw the thick gynecology textbook of hers that I'd opened, purely by chance, to a picture of a woman's vulva distorted by a giant Bartholin's cyst.†   (source)
  • Kelly's Obstetrics and Jeffcoate's Gynecology, and French's Index of Differential Diagnosis (at least in my childish way of thinking), were maps of Missing, guides to the territory into which we were born.†   (source)
  • She left because gynecology, at least in Madras, remained a man's domain, and, even on the eve of independence, a British domain, and she had no chance at all for a civil service appointment to the government teaching hospital.†   (source)
  • I knew enough Arabic to understand that he'd just invoked a gynecological term that made reference to my mother.†   (source)
  • " Shiva Stone was not a physician, "but a skilled layperson, initiated into this field by his gynecologist mother."†   (source)
  • And all this when Hema, Missing's only gynecologist, not only the best in the country, but the best Matron had ever seen, was away.†   (source)
  • I am an obstetrician-gynecologist.†   (source)
  • But what his readers didn't know, and what I learned only many years later, was that he had an aversion to anything gynecological (not to mention anything obstetrical).†   (source)
  • Hema worked every day, and zealous young gynecologists from within the country, but also from other African nations, came to train and take up the cause.†   (source)
  • And yes, I'm not a gynecologist."†   (source)
  • At the other end of town stood the former Institute of Gynecology, founded by Samdeviatov's father in memory of his wife, who had died in childbirth, now renamed the Rosa Luxemburg Institute, where Yurii Andreievich lectured on general pathology and one or two optional subjects as part of the new, shortened course of medicine and surgery.†   (source)
  • The huge gynecologist, in his white coat, rose as though from under the ground in front of him, barring the way.†   (source)
  • Dr. Zhivago, until recently known as Yura but now addressed more and more often as Yurii Andreievich, stood in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital, outside the door of the maternity ward to which he had just brought his wife Tonia-Antonina Alexandrovna.†   (source)
  • He performed simple surgery — on appendixes, gastric ulcers, compound fractures — but he also rather daringly practiced every other sort of medicine, too, except gynecology and obstetrics.†   (source)
  • Memorizing of gynecology, of ophthalmology, till his mind was burnt raw.†   (source)
  • His return to Wheatsylvania was like his first flight, except that he talked less with fellow tramps, and all the way, between uneasy naps in the red-plush seats of coaches, he studied the bulky books of gynecology and internal medicine.†   (source)
  • To attend lectures on physical diagnosis, surgery, neurology, obstetrics, and gynecology in the morning, with hospital demonstrations in the afternoon; to supervise the making of media and the sterilization of glassware for Gottlieb; to instruct a new class in the use of the microscope and filter and autoclave; to read a page now and then of scientific German or French; to see Madeline constantly; to get through it all he drove himself to hysterical hurrying, and in the dizziest of it…†   (source)
  • / McCann is an eminent London gynecologist, and /Mr.†   (source)
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