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ob-gyn

Or ob/gyn,

[oh-bee-jee-wahy-en]

  1. obstetrical-gynecological.

  2. obstetrician-gynecologist.

  3. obstetrics and gynecology.



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According to one 2013 survey, only 20% of OB-GYN residents reported being formally taught about menopause medicine.

Dr. Suzanne Gilberg, a board-certified OB-GYN who runs a concierge medical practice in Los Angeles, said this conversation has been driven in part by a generation of women who were put on the pill at a young age for a variety of reasons.

At a recent OB-GYN appointment in September, she told her doctor that she was ready to try fertility treatments again.

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“Anti-abortion officials do not care about making families safer and healthier,” Dr. Danielle Gershon, an ob-gyn in Alabama who works with Physicians for Reproductive Health, told Salon.

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Kirk, who works by day delivering babies as the county’s only OB-GYN, said he wasn’t drinking that night because he was on call.

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