[ noun ] a physician specializing in obstetrics <noun.person>
Obstetrician \Ob`ste*tri"cian\, n. One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur; especially, a physician who specializes in obstetrics.
Williams was the only obstetrician in the two-county area and delivered 30 to 50 babies a month.
It was the state's highest malpractice award against an obstetrician.
A judge today found an obstetrician guilty of infanticide on grounds that a fetus taken during an abortion on a 13-year-old was alive instead of stillborn as the doctor claimed.
In Michigan, Medicaid paid an obstetrician $373.32 for a vaginal delivery; private insurers paid $902.
A federal agency judge says a Texas obstetrician let his fear of a malpractice lawsuit cloud his judgment when he ordered a poor, sick woman who was about to give birth transferred to another hospital 160 miles away.
Dr. Michael Stark, a Jerusalem obstetrician, felt compelled to tell a patient's Palestinian husband how terrible he felt about the Temple Mount killings.
GPs rarely inform women of their right to a home birth with a midwife, referring them straight to hospital and an obstetrician.
The foundation recommends a visit to the obstetrician before you become pregnant to detect and prevent problems that might affect the fetus in the earliest stages of development.
He charges about the same as an obstetrician, but he says he spends more time with each patient so he earns about 25% as much.
Most worrisome, says Dr. Haverkamp, the obstetrician, is that two of every 100 of his seemingly low-risk deliveries develop unforeseen complications requiring an emergency operation to save the infant or the mother.
A woman in labor, for instance, might be asked whether she wants the chief obstetrician to deliver her baby.
In one episode, Big Bird accompanied Maria to the obstetrician. The expectant mothers and their doctor seemed unfazed by the presence of an eight-foot-tall yellow fowl in the office.
A federal agency judge says a Victoria, Texas, obstetrician let his fear of a malpractice lawsuit cloud his judgment when the doctor ordered a poor, sick woman who was about to give birth transferred to another hospital 160 miles away.
Had Dr. Prichard taken the trouble, as we did, to compare malpractice-insurance premiums along four points on both sides of the border she would have found that for an obstetrician it would be $4,000 on her side but $40,000 on ours.