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obstetrician
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Cutting for Stone
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- Bachelli up in the Piazza was marginally competent in obstetrics but unreliable after two in the afternoon, and his Eritrean mistress was deeply suspicious of him leaving on "house calls."†
Part 1obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- She's an obstetrician.†
Part 1obstetrician = a physician specializing in childbirth
- She chose obstetrics and gynecology instead of his field, internal medicine.†
Part 1obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- She'd discovered in herself a talent for manipulative obstetrics, becoming expert at divining just how the baby was hung up in the pelvis.†
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- What other obstetricians perhaps dreaded, she relished.†
Part 1 *obstetricians = physicians who specialize in childbirth
- 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.†
Part 1obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- Stone, animated now, consumed by a sense of mission, propped Munro Kerr's Operative Obstetrics open, cookery-book fashion, on the down slope of Sister Mary Joseph Praise's protuberant belly.†
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- A humane obstetrician invented these instruments for mothers with the most desperate needs, not for desperate physicians.†
Part 1obstetrician = a physician specializing in childbirth
- Seeing Stone in the hallowed place between a woman's legs that was reserved for the obstetrician rankled Hema.†
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- In that gesture she slipped off the mantle of the traveler and put on that of the obstetrician.†
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- Whatever happened, at least now a real obstetrician was in charge.†
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- But the cynicism of the obstetrician who has seen everything crept back in.†
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- Once the babies were out, her duty as an obstetrician was to turn completely to Sister Mary Joseph Praise; her duty was to the mother.†
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- 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.†
Part 1obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- I am an obstetrician-gynecologist.†
Part 2obstetrician = a physician specializing in childbirth
- In her years as an obstetrician, Hema had never thought too much about a newborn's cry, never paused to consider the frequency that made a baby's tongue and lips quiver like a reed.†
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- 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.†
Part 3obstetrics = that branch of medicine that assists with childbirth
- There was nothing prurient about his interest in the Version Clinic or in obstetrics and gynecology.†
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- Meanwhile, on his own he was learning everything he could about obstetrics and gynecology.†
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- I overheard Hema tell Ghosh that Shiva knew more than the average final-year medical student when it came to obstetrics and gynecology.†
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- I'd done three months each in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and now all that remained was a month of pediatrics.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(obstetrician) a physician specializing in childbirth
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)