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The boy's parents, Rie, a midwife, and Toshiki, an IT consultant, moved to the village at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Among the victims found was a young mother, her newborn baby and a midwife, confirmed local official Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness, according to the Associated Press.
—Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
Marie Leuenberger plays the mother, Julia, with a range of emotions and gets to not only play off Hans Löw, who portrays her partner Georg, but also a midwife, played by Julia Franz Richter, and a doctor is portrayed by a big name, Claes Bang.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
However, the rapid progression of her labor led to an unplanned scenario, with her midwife arriving 20 minutes after the baby was born.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Among the victims found was a young mother, her newborn baby and a midwife, confirmed local official Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness, according to the Associated Press.
—Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
Marie Leuenberger plays the mother, Julia, with a range of emotions and gets to not only play off Hans Löw, who portrays her partner Georg, but also a midwife, played by Julia Franz Richter, and a doctor is portrayed by a big name, Claes Bang.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
However, the rapid progression of her labor led to an unplanned scenario, with her midwife arriving 20 minutes after the baby was born.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
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The body takes a minimum of 13 weeks to recover, the nurse-midwife Helena A. Grant tells Somerstein.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2024
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Initially, three teenage boys worked as volunteer transport helpers, caring for FNS’s horses and running errands for the nurse-midwives.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2024
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For many Americans, planning a doctor’s appointment comes with logistical headaches: taking a day off from work; scheduling months in advance; dealing with insurance coverage and related costs.—
Barbara Rodriguez and Kate Sosin,
Them,
10 Mar. 2025
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Her doctor, not you, should discuss making those changes with her and the reasons for it.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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In consultation with Gemmill and more than a dozen other maternal health researchers and obstetricians, ProPublica built a framework for analyzing Texas hospital discharge data from 2017 to 2023, the most recent full year available.—
CNN,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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In 1993, another woman gave birth to a daughter on the No. 3 train while on her way to an obstetrician’s appointment.—
Liam Stack,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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This is true even in households where both spouses work as physicians.—
Christopher M. Worsham,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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One analysis from the AMA found that the number of physicians working in private practice dropped by 13 percentage points — from 60 percent to 46.7 percent — between 2012 and 2022.—
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Mixing traditional doc methods with recreations and creepy genre-movie inflections, that film provided an unsettling exploration of sleep paralysis, a condition in which the mind is wide awake, but the body is frozen.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
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In an email sent to Microsoft 365 subscribers today, the company recommends users preserve their work from Publisher by converting the files to PDFs or Word docs before the shutdown.—
Emily Forlini,
PCMAG,
7 Mar. 2025
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Walid Al-Zaim's mother shows a photo of his frostbitten foot to pediatricians on Tuesday at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC News,
26 Feb. 2025
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Someone is infectious from before symptoms show, until four days after the rash appears, said Dr. Ari Brown, a pediatrician in Austin.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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But recent surveys have found many women are postponing visits to their gynecologists.—
Roni Caryn Rabin,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Laparoscopies are usually performed by a general surgeon, gynecologist, or gastroenterological surgeon (a surgeon who specializes in the digestive system).—
Heidi Cope,
Health,
18 Feb. 2025
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Diaz, who was just a couple of blocks from home, died after being rushed by medics to Elmhurst Hospital Center.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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Several state agencies are on standby and have prepared to deploy firefighting and storm rescue teams, including more than 200 firefighting personnel, National Guard helicopters, rescue boats, and additional ambulances and medics, the governor’s office said.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midwife. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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