obstetrician

in a sentence

The obstetrician retired rather than pay the higher insurance.

In the months before Cassie's death we had started to talk about college, and she had grand ambitions about going to Cambridge, England, and becoming an obstetrician.†  (source) Misty Bernall, She Said Yes, 1999

No obstetricians, no anesthesiologists, no fancy monitoring devices.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

The next two years passed quickly, with Sampson and Rameck taking clinical rotations at various hospitals in pediatrics, surgery, family practice, obstetrics, and other fields.†  (source) Sampon Davis, et. al., We Beat the Street, 2005

Her testimony was exposed as unreliable by the State's own expert witness, Dr. Dennis McNally, an obstetrician/gynecologist who examined Mrs. Colbey two weeks after the stillbirth.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

They were doctors, both obstetricians.†  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

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) Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010

"I called Bentley before we left," he said, naming his colleague, an obstetrician.†  (source) Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, 2005

In a medical study, it turned out that obstetricians in areas with declining birth rates are much more likely to perform cesarean-section deliveries than obstetricians in growing areas—suggesting that, when business is tough, doctors try to ring up more expensive procedures.†  (source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005

The modern entrance, a towering atrium with marble floors, lies a quarter of a mile away, at the end of a shiny corridor called the Pike—short for turnpike—flanked by banks of elevators, clinical departments to the right and left, inpatient wards on floors above, operating rooms below (forty, not counting the ones in obstetrics), dozens of laboratories in all directions, and mortal dramas everywhere.†  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

The obstetrician said strange things often happened with elderly pregnancies.†  (source) Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer, 1995

I'd known him only casually; he was one of many obstetricians with privileges at the county hospital, but the only one I knew of who also worked at such a clinic.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

The next June, Theresa began her specialty training (obstetrics).†  (source) Gish Jen, Typical American, 1991