The obstetrician-turned- congressman from southeast Texas has become an unlikely celebrity in the 2008 presidential campaign.
For example, few clinicians think that babies get cerebral palsy because the obstetrician failed to deliver them by caesarean section.
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The obstetrician read her witness statement to the court, giving a detailed, chronological account of the treatment she provided to Mrs Halappanavar.
Beyond those words I heard nothing, sitting in the obstetrician's office.
Her pregnancy was thirty-nine weeks along, and the obstetrician who had ordered the test broke the news to her as she sat with her husband and her parents.
The obstetrician at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, one of the city's premier health facilities, has seen her maternity ward filled to capacity since the beginning of last year.
The inquest, which is being held in Galway, also took evidence from the consultant obstetrician who treated Mrs Halappanavar in the hospital.
Earlier, the consultant obstetrician who treated Mrs Halappanavar told the inquest into her death there was a "systems failure" in the care that was given to her.
During the the hearing, which is being held in Galway, the consultant obstetrician who treated Mrs Halappanavar has agreed there was a "systems failure" in the care that was given to her.
For a time he was the only obstetrician in Brazoria County and he has delivered many local residents.
The inquest comes amid reports that a request by Savita Halappanavar for a termination of her pregnancy is recorded in the medical notes by the consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who treated her before she died.
Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and a consultant obstetrician said the research was very well designed.
He returned to the UK and took up work as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Friarage Hospital in North Allerton, Yorkshire.
Laube is worried by the spread of anti-abortion state laws, but encouraged by the surge of women becoming obstetrician-gynecologists a trend he hopes will ease the shortage of abortion providers.
The team includes Italian obstetrician Severino Antinori, who became famous for helping a 62-year-old woman give birth.
Meanwhile a leading obstetrician told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme that a recommendation in the draft guidelines on abortion "undermines the competence of medical staff".
Dr Daghni Rajasingam, consultant obstetrician from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, agreed that society and societal pressures have changed the choices of mothers, but also pointed out that there are "fantastic assisted conception techniques" now which have helped older women who could not have children earlier in their lives.
The main suspect in the case, Dr Khelifa Hanouti is accused of impersonating an obstetrician and running an abortion clinic in the Algiers suburb of Ain Taya, the agency says.
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More than 40 women have been seen in specialist clinics following a review into the work of a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who was suspended at Cornwall's main hospital.
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In the coming weeks, this narrative will be picked apart and analyzed and stripped to its bones dewy childhood recollections, Kodachrome evidence, 15 minutes for octogenarian schoolteachers to the point you may hope for a rogue obstetrician to come forward and produce proof of a decades-concealed mix-up in the maternity ward.
The assumption is there's no harm if modern medicine accommodates a busy obstetrician, a hectic family schedule or simply the mother's desire to get to the finish line and give birth.
For more information, I hope you will consult with your obstetrician or midwife for the best recommendations for your situation.
James Davison, an obstetrician and spokesman for the program, says administrators and board members helped push it through last year.
When she began experiencing pain on Saturday night, the couple decided to visit an obstetrician at Long Island Hospital Center, police and family said.
At the clinic, run by Dr. Geeta Shroff, a former obstetrician and pediatrician who admits she is self taught in the practice of stem cell medicine, Cash received embryonic stem cell injections for a disorder that resembles Down syndrome and is caused by a missing part of his X chromosome.
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The return of an FDA-cleared treatment is needed, said ACOG spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital who wasn't involved in the study of Diclegis.
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Jamal Zaidi said the changes were being made "purely on the grounds of safety".
Initially, 42 women who were patients of obstetrician and gynaecologist Rob Jones at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro were asked to return.
The compound may help desire and arousal disorders in postmenopausal women, perhaps by stimulating estrogen receptors at sites in the body, including the brain, says Michael Diamond, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Wayne State University.
Mr Halappanavar said he still "sticks to" his allegation that his wife's consultant obstetrician, Dr Katherine Astbury, said the same comment.
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