d(ilation) and c(urettage)
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They drove an hour to another hospital asking for a D&C to stop the bleeding, but there, too, the physician would only prescribe misoprostol, medical records indicate.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
It was clear Porsha needed an emergency D&C, the medical experts said.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
"The standard of care would be a D&C."
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
While waiting for the D&C procedure, Shelley started experiencing cramps at home and went to A&E.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2024
Doctors told ProPublica they have seen colleagues disregard the standard of care when their patients are at risk of infection and wait to see if a miscarriage completes naturally before offering a D&C.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024
For scenes of discord, Mr. Howard said, “It’s all minor key. Usually D and C minor are like, drama.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2018
We weren't always within convenient means of traveling so that she could get the D and C she so vitally needed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2017
“I like to say that a D and C, a suction D and C even, is bread and butter gynecology,” the doctor explained.
From US News ● Jun. 24, 2016
OB-GYNs have always learned the D and C procedure.
From US News ● Jun. 24, 2016
From Level of Sea to Surface of plain, 252 feet above sea, through levels F, E, D and C: F.—Lower sandstone, with concretions and silicified bones, with fossil shells, all, or nearly all, extinct.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
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