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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Every time another ob-gyn retires, Balthrop gets an influx of new patients.
    Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Munn's lifesaving diagnosis was due to her ob-gyn’s decision to calculate her lifetime breast cancer risk score during a routing Pap smear using a free online tool called a Tyrer-Cuzick risk assessment calculator.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
  • This puts emergency physicians, ob-gyn doctors and pregnant patients with serious complications in a precarious position.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

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