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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The 14th season of the enduringly popular series Call the Midwife, which follows the nurses, midwives and nuns in the East End of London, starts tonight on PBS’ Masterpiece.—
Jane Levere,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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And last week, the state charged a midwife and an associate with illegally providing abortions.—
Kavitha Surana,
ProPublica,
27 Mar. 2025
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During a procedure to remove the masses, doctors found two additional tumors in her lungs.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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In such cases, law-enforcement officers—but also, at times, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel, mostly working for private corporations—watch for days, weeks, and months as ailing people waste away in their care.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Read Next Health & Fitness Idaho has lost 22% of its practicing obstetricians in the last 15 months, report says February 20, 2024 12:18 PM Read Next State Politics Need treatment your doctor doesn’t support?—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
2 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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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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My gynecologist diagnoses and removes an ovarian cyst.—
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 22 Apr. 2025.
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