Maysoon Zayid

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term 'cerebral palsy,' I usually get one of two responses. They either think of a smiling, crumpled child in a wheelchair on a poster or commercials on late night TV with lawyers enticing parents of CP kids to sue the pants off their obstetrician.

American Actress

Alice Dreger

When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

American Scientist

Charlton Heston

I'll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia's obstetrician poked me awake: 'Congratulations... you have a fine son.

American Actor

Joan Rivers

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

American Comedian

Susan Isaacs

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

American Novelist

Art Linkletter

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

American Journalist

Obstetricians specialize in pregnancy and childbirth, not general medicine.

Specialization Focus

Obstetricians primarily treat women, as their work revolves around pregnancy.

Gender Specific

Obstetrician is a technical term best used in medical or formal contexts.

Technical Term

 for those who live far from cities there's a shocking lack of providers nationwide nearly half of all the counties in the United States do not have an obstetrician providing maternity care midwives could fill the maternity care provider shortage for low-risk

Caring for maternal...

 Pain just kept accumulating in his life. Next, he watched his wife go into labor at his hospital. She heaved and pushed, clearly in anguish. Her obstetrician called out to the intern on duty to give her a few drops of ether to ease her pain.

Latif Nasser: The...

 Obstetrician Charles Meigs has a theory. Having observed abdominal inflammation in patients who go on to develop the fever, he claims this inflammation is the cause of childbed fever.

Can you outsmart the...

 obvious to the obstetrician whether the twins are identical or fraternal but our twins share the placenta the clearest indication that they're identical