How to Use obstetrician in a Sentence

obstetrician

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  • An obstetrician gave Joice, who was 39 weeks along, the okay to see the show.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
  • But sleep was a long way off for the 39-year-old obstetrician.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • The obstetrician lifted the newborn free of the birth canal.
    — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020
  • That’s where Brown and the midwives at Lovers Lane filled a need that Green said her obstetrician didn’t.
    — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Willie Wise, the son of a Souderton obstetrician, was a coltish 15-year-old in the middle of a growth spurt.
    — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • But abruptly, the technician stopped pointing at the screen and left the room to get the obstetrician.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • Right now half—half—of all counties in the U.S. do not have a single obstetrician.
    — Barbara Brody, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2018
  • During one such birth in 1916, a Texas obstetrician named Robert House asked the husband for a scale to weigh the newborn.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
  • And why, oh why, did my friend have to play back-alley obstetrician?
    — Shannon Boodram, Cosmopolitan, 3 Aug. 2017
  • For now, the four obstetricians in town — all women — are digging in.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • For starters, in the new version, twin obstetricians are on a mission to change how women give birth.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Raised to be an obstetrician at a Maine orphanage, a young man leaves to work at a cider mill with a soldier’s beloved.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The condition is rare and her obstetrician hadn’t checked for it.
    — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 22 July 2022
  • He’s the obstetrician who saved the lives of our twin sons and my wife in an extremely difficult birth years ago.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Then again, what the obstetrician was saying made sense.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024
  • There was a high risk for trisomy 18, her obstetrician said.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Charles Grodin is the well-meaning, blind obstetrician.
    — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • The thought of him carrying me through checkpoints to get to our obstetrician, an hour away on foot, or to the ER, is perhaps the most frightening of my life.
    — Sophia Jones, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Over the same period, only two obstetricians moved to the state to practice.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Would Aretha have sounded the same if she had been born to a dentist and an obstetrician in Connecticut and trained at Exeter?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Her obstetrician told her breast changes were common when the body was gearing up for nursing.
    — Katherine Malmo, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But with God’s help, her great obstetrician, Dr. Ron Lorenzini, with the big hands of a bricklayer, saved them all.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Pilar first visited the clinic in April of that year to see an obstetrician.
    — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Faheem Noor Ali cares for his toddler and manages the household when his wife, an obstetrician, is on call.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 18 June 2022
  • The local clinic had referred her to an obstetrician in Hanford, a 30-minute drive away.
    — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
  • At birth, his French obstetrician was critical of us for having brought him into the world.
    — WSJ, 7 June 2017
  • His first mainstream film role was a small part as an obstetrician in Rosemary’s Baby.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
  • Enter Email Sign Up Then, in an obstetrician’s office, his world flipped.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Finally, my parents went to a local obstetrician in Stamford who told them that in his judgement the fibroid would stop growing, allowing for completion of the pregnancy.
    — Lisa P. Rimland, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
  • For example, women who are flooded with sorrow after suffering miscarriages frequently have their suffering dismissed by their obstetricians, who claim that miscarriages are par for the course.
    — Patricia Steckler, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024

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