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- L. Lewis Wall, a professor of obstetrics at the Washington University School of Medicine who has campaigned tirelessly for a fistula hospital in West Africa, estimates that 30,000 to 130,000 new cases of fistula develop each year in Africa alone.†
Chpt 6obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- Allan Rosenfield grew up in the 1930s and 1940s in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of a successful obstetrician in Boston.†
Chpt 6obstetrician = a physician specializing in childbirth
- The world's obstetricians are particularly neglectful of their duty in this regard.†
Chpt 6 *obstetricians = physicians who specialize in childbirth
- Instead of drawing attention to the problem and lobbying for major programmes and changes in priorities, most obstetricians concentrate on subspecialties that put emphasis on high technology.†
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- "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.†
Chpt 7obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- Over time, the government added obstetricians to its hospitals, and it used its data to see where women were slipping through the cracks—such as those living on the tea estates—and then to open clinics targeting those women.†
Chpt 7obstetricians = physicians who specialize in childbirth
- Further evidence of the centrality of emergency obstetrics came from a study of a fundamentalist Christian church in Indiana whose members were affluent, well-educated, and well-nourished Americans, yet who for spiritual reasons eschewed doctors and hospitals.†
Chpt 7obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- As the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics put it in an editorial, emergency obstetric care is the "keystone in the arch of safe motherhood.†
Chpt 7
- An example of the measures we've been talking about—including emergency obstetrics to save lives in difficult environments—can be found in a wondrous hospital in a remote country that doesn't even exist.... Edna's Hospital†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(obstetrician) a physician specializing in childbirth
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)