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
Noun
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As chaos unfolds when activists on the Isle of Dogs block access in their bid for independence, Dr. Turner and the midwives must work to keep things running as usual.—
Jane Levere,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Newsweek spoke to midwife Pip Davies (midwifepip.com) who said the video helps recognize and embrace the importance of dads as active participants who can contribute meaningfully to the experience.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The shooter behind the 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children, had been obsessively planning it for years while hiding mental health issues from family and doctors, a police report released Wednesday reveals.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Apr. 2025
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Things got so bad that Devine’s doctors diagnosed him with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), more formally known as Moersch-Woltman Syndrome.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the spring of 2023, a woman in Chicago, much like Lucca, was referred to genetics by her obstetrician for routine discussion of atypical NIPT results.—
Laura Hercher,
Scientific American,
24 Mar. 2025
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Liles, the obstetrician, also stressed the importance of involving trusted adults, but said minors don’t always feel comfortable engaging parents in those conversations, and that’s why the provisions in H.B. 7213 are necessary.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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During Friday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the Charlie’s Angels actress, 50, recalled once having to visit a male gynecologist because her female doctor was out of town.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Kering Foundation has supported La Maison des Femmes — a care center in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis for women in difficulty or victims of violence — since it was founded in 2016 by obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Ghada Hatem.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Nurse-midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nurse-midwife. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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