How to Use ob-gyn in a Sentence

ob-gyn

noun
  • Storch went to see her ob-gyn, who sent her for a CT scan.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Fishbach didn’t have to abandon the state to learn the full range of ob-gyn care.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • Leigh Wade, an ob-gyn who showed up with her husband, told the Times.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Like so many women, Valerie didn’t know how to get help or how to talk about it with her ob-gyn.
    — Courtney Biggs, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Now, women can order it whether or not their ob-gyn knows about it or offers it.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The hospital’s labor-and-delivery unit closed years ago, and there is no ob-gyn on site.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The Mindy Project follows a successful ob-gyn who, like many of us, struggles with her dating life.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 21 Oct. 2024
  • One of the most notable GOP losses of the night was a Republican state senator who works as an ob-gyn.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Sometimes, though, there’s an issue at hand that warrants a trip to an ob-gyn or primary care provider.
    — Mara Santilli, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Why would a psychiatrist or an ob-gyn physician or nurse call the police to report a patient for their thoughts?
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Three weeks before my due date, after a routine ultrasound, my high-risk ob-gyn walked briskly into the room.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Meet the experts: Diana Bitner, MD, is an ob-gyn with more than 20 years of experience.
    — Women's Health, 12 July 2023
  • See below for the best, most breathable underwear options that are all ob-gyn-approved.
    — Emilia Benton, womenshealthmag.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Your ob-gyn can help rule out certain health conditions that may be at the root of it, like endometriosis or uterine fibroids.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Among them is Zoe Kornberg, an ob-gyn resident in her mid-thirties.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Every time another ob-gyn retires, Balthrop gets an influx of new patients.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Mindy Project, a workplace rom-com that cast the creator as a single ob-gyn, had some great moments but was inconsistent enough to feel as dashed-off as its placeholder title.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Applications to all ob-gyn programs dropped by 5 percent.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • Cutler is concerned that the law could hurt the ob-gyn residency at the University of Wisconsin’s medical school.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Aldó, played by Károly Hajduk, is a wiry, disheveled figure with benevolent eyes and a haunted air, whose entire life is his ob-gyn practice since losing his family in the camps.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • If your period pain is severe, your healthcare provider or an ob-gyn can prescribe medications or birth control medicines to help manage symptoms.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Today Munn is determined to raise awareness for other women at risk, crediting her ob-gyn's decision to calculate her lifetime cancer risk as the one that saved her life.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
  • One reason for this is many Black people in the US simply can’t afford to see a specialized expert like an ob-gyn or reproductive endocrinologist.
    — Adele Jackson-Gibson, SELF, 25 July 2023
  • Advertisement Issues: Anger, anxiety, insomnia Root cause: Rachel is abruptly touched by an obtuse ob-gyn at the hospital shortly before the birth of her first child.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • When the family practice doctor overseeing the case asked for a peer-to-peer review, the insurance company physician defending the denial was an ob-gyn specialist.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • His mother and father, who emigrated from India, were doctors, an ob-gyn and a cardiologist.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 July 2024
  • Here, an ob-gyn and a reproductive medicine specialist help identify five signs your period pain and other symptoms are actually signs of endometriosis—and how to cope.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Thanks to federal and state parity laws, most insurance companies can’t charge you a much higher co-pay to see a therapist than to see a medical doctor, like a primary care physician or ob-gyn, the HHS explains.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024
  • This is one of the reasons why seeing a healthcare provider, such as an obstetric-gynecologist (ob-gyn) or midwife, for regular prenatal care is important.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Your primary care doctor or ob-gyn can also refer you to a specialist like a urologist or urogynecologist who can assess whether something bigger might be going on, Dr. White says.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025

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