as in midwife
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Recent Examples of nurse-midwife
The body takes a minimum of 13 weeks to recover, the nurse-midwife Helena A. Grant tells Somerstein.
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Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 18 June 2024
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
Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy.
—Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Bruce saw an obstetrician who used nurse-midwives and all her office visits and labs were covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.
—Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
The 2023 honor goes to Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife and hospital founder who has spent decades combating female circumcision and working to improve women’s health care in East Africa.
—Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 18 June 2024
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
Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
February 5, 2024 For several years, Morgan Nuzzo, a nurse-midwife, and her friend and colleague Diane Horvath, an ob-gyn, talked about opening a clinic that would provide abortions in all trimesters of pregnancy.
—Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Bruce saw an obstetrician who used nurse-midwives and all her office visits and labs were covered under Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.
—Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
The 2023 honor goes to Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife and hospital founder who has spent decades combating female circumcision and working to improve women’s health care in East Africa.
—Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nurse-midwife
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Meanwhile, Katharina Pink, PhD, an evolutionary anthropologist and midwife at the Medical University of Vienna, and lead author of the study, believes there may be valuable lessons to learn from macaque births that could help improve approaches to human childbirth.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2025
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Childbirth was $6,000 through a midwife who took cash.—
Alana Semuels,
TIME,
20 Mar. 2025
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Aid groups and doctors warn that the Trump administration’s funding cuts to USAID are likely to cause thousands of unnecessary deaths and a rise in TB infections worldwide.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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Nevertheless, there is a conflict of interest inherent in the structure through which doctors provide healthcare to players in these leagues.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The Highland Park obstetrician doesn’t know if there can be any justice after such a heinous act, which left seven dead, four dozen injured and an entire community terrorized and upended.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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No list of exceptions can encompass every situation and risk a patient might face, obstetricians said.—
CNN,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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What’s the statistic there, the average ER physician has to see a patient every three to four minutes?—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Compton-Phillips, who also reports to Joyner, was most recently chief physician executive of Press Ganey, a health care performance improvement company.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Thankfully, my gynecologist confirmed shortly thereafter that there was nothing to worry about.—
Nicola Dall'Asen,
Allure,
12 Mar. 2025
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Another gynecologist prescribes a diagnostic laparoscopy, which confirms endometriosis on my diaphragm.—
Health,
Health,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Nurse-midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nurse-midwife. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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