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8 unusual facts about Obstetrics


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In order to put a painful past and a terrible sense of guilt behind her, a sterile young woman named Mathilde (played by Nastassja Kinski) uses extreme cloning methods to give birth to Manon (Audrey DeWilder), and is comforted by her obstetrician husband Thomas (Christopher Lambert).

Ede Flórián Birly

Ede Flórián Birly (1787-1854) was Professor of Theoretical and Practical Obstetrics at the University of Pest.

Edoardo Porro

Eduardo Porro (1842–1902) was an Italian obstetrician.

Fernando Magalhães

Fernando Magalhães (February 18, 1878 – January 10, 1944) was a Brazilian obstetrician who was twice President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Gunapala Amarasinghe

He is currently a professor and the head of the Department of Prasutitantra and Kaumarabrithya (Ayurvedic Obstetrics and Pediatrics) of Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo.

Louise Catherine Breslau

When Breslau was two years old, her father accepted the position of professor and head physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Zurich; Switzerland became home to the Breslau family.

Michael L. Brodman

Michael L. Brodman, M.D. is an American gynecologist and obstetrician and currently the Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman’s Chair and Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

University of Siena

The Sienese academy eventually recovered from the unrest, thanks to initiatives by the city’s private enterprises and a series of legislative acknowledgements that boosted the reputation of the School of Pharmacy and that of Obstetrics (and consequently the School of Medicine itself) while the old hospital Santa Maria della Scala was transformed into General University Hospital.


Adolescent medicine

Unintended pregnancy (working with specialists in adolescent obstetrics and gynecology, especially in neonatology and maternal-fetal medicine; many- though not all- are medically risky or high-risk cases and/or to those with psychosocial, environmental, and socioeconomic challenges)

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) is a program developed by The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

Canberra Hospital

There were no obstetric facilities and obstetrics patients had to travel to the Queanbeyan hospital.

Chrissie Williams

Chrissie attempted to sever relations between them and was saved by Obstetrics Consultant Owen Davies when Alistair attempted to restrain her physically.

Cricothyrotomy

In the BBC3 medical drama Bodies, the main protagonist Rob Lake, a newly appointed obstetrics and gynaecology registrar (played by Max Beesley), is called to a patient who is having difficulty breathing due to epiglottitis.

Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch

In 1829 he succeeded Adam Elias von Siebold (1775-1828) as professor and director of the obstetrics clinic at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, serving as university rector in 1835/36.

Esther de Pommery

h.c. International Medical Association.She studied Obstetrics at the University of Bern and Archaeology in the University of Paris.

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo

Professor Sir Nicholas Attygalle, KBE, FRCS, FRCOG - former President of the Senate of Ceylon, Vice Chancellor of University of Ceylon, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Soon after the urine screenings began, the case manager in the hospital's obstetrics department heard that police in Greenville, South Carolina, were arresting pregnant women who used cocaine for child abuse.

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau

Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (April 30, 1814 in Klatovy – October 24, 1852 in Prague) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Würzburg and later at the University of Prague.

Gerald Schatten

He is Professor and Vice-Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also Director of the Division of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at the university's School of Medicine.

Leonardo Gigli

Leonardo Gigli (30 April 1863, Sesto Fiorentino – 4 April 1908, Florence) was an Italian surgeon and obstetrician remembered for describing Gigli's operation, and for designing the Gigli saw to simplify its performance.

Lucy Baldwin, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley

She was the founder of the Anæsthetics Appeal Fund of the National Birthday Trust Fund, and associated with the Lucy Baldwin machine for self-administration of nitrous-oxide/oxygen analgesia in obstetrics.

Luigi Frari

His uncle Angelo Antonio Frari was Chief Municipal Physician of Split, famous epidemiologist, historian of medicine and the protomedicus of Venice, whose son Michele Carlo Frari was an illustrious professor of obstetrics at Padua University.

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital

The Hospital offers facilities for clinical teaching in all the specialties except Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tuberculosis and Ophthalmology for which there are separate hospitals.

Mark Sauer

He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Hospital in 1984 and then obtained sub-specialty training in reproductive endocrinology at the University of California in Los Angeles, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, under the mentorship of John Buster, M.D. Dr. Sauer has been married since 1979 to Lynda Marie (Treppa) Sauer and has 4 children: Julie, Chris, Jeffery, and Emily.

Mary Meigs

Meigs was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward Browning Meigs and Margaret Wister Meigs, and grew up in Washington, D.C. Her great-great-grandfather was the famous obstetrician Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs, and her great-granduncle was Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army during the American Civil War.

Mymensingh Medical College

The Head of Departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics and all other full Professors, two senior-most Associate Professors, two senior-most Assistant Professors and two nominated representatives of students union are the members of the Council.

Nebojša

Nebojša Radunović, university professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Belgrade School of Medicine

Nicholas Callan

While in Rome he became acquainted with the work of the pioneers in electricity such as Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) who was a pioneer in modern obstetrics and Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) who is known especially for the development of the electric battery.

Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy

Every few weeks, students are rotated and exposed to different parts of clinical medicine such as Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Neurology, Orthopedics, Radiology, Public Health and so on.

Queanbeyan District Hospital

Prior to the establishment of Royal Canberra Hospital in 1914, Queanbeyan Hospital was the hub for medical services in the Monaro region, and the newly formed Federal Capital Territory still relied in the hospital for services such as obstetrics.

Raquela Prywes

Raquela Prywes (Hebrew: רחלה פריבס; born Raquela Levy, 1924 in Jerusalem; died March, 1985) was a nurse in Israel, trained in midwifery, and obstetrics, at the Hadassah Medical Center.

Regent High School

He became a Fellow, Scholar and gold medallist in Sanitary Science and in Obstetrics at the University of London and received Honours in Physiology, Forensic Medicine and Surgery.

Shifa College of Medicine

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan has given approval for training in the specialties of Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Urology and Radiology, leading to FCPS qualification.

Skejby Sygehus

Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, has eight medical specialities: Infectious disease, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic surgery, Nephrology, Urology, Pediatrics, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, and peripheral vascular diseases.

Susan Mokotoff Reverby

From 1993–1997 she served as the consumer representative on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices Advisory Panel.

Tropical medicine

For example, the training of Dutch tropical doctors consists of two clinical years (Obstetrics & Gynecology, Paediatrics or General Surgery) and a three months course at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam.

World Lung Foundation

With financial support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, WLF has implemented an emergency maternal health obstetrics program in the Kigoma, Morogoro, and Pwani provinces of Tanzania.


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