midwife

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Recent Examples of midwife Certified nurse midwives are educated in two fields: midwifery and nursing. Advertorial, Oc Register, 7 July 2025 The couple had an at-home birth with the help of a midwife and doula. Emily Weaver, People.com, 8 May 2025 This labor shortage also extends to other areas like midwives and community health workers, which have faced steep cuts following the dismantling of the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID). Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025 In Gaza, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Mozambique, in the blink of an eye, midwives, shrinks, programs for survivors and essential services in refugee camps were gone. Isabelle Mayault, The Dial, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for midwife
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Noun
  • The body takes a minimum of 13 weeks to recover, the nurse-midwife Helena A. Grant tells Somerstein.
    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
Noun
  • Sharp pain in your eye that persists, worsens, or accompanies other symptoms should be evaluated by an eye doctor or other healthcare provider to determine the cause and proper treatment.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Task Force members include independent doctors, nurses and public health experts who volunteer to regularly review scientific research about diseases ranging from cardiovascular conditions to cancer to HIV.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • John McHugh is an obstetrician who has practiced for decades in Southern California.
    John McHugh, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
  • The moment triggered an immediate emergency response and within seconds, the delivery room was filled with nurses and an obstetrician.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Sono Bello allows physicians who have completed formal residencies in more than half a dozen types of surgery to apply for its fellowship.
    Fred Schulte, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
  • Data analytics, physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, nutritionists, and many more collaborate to bring out the elite performance in world-class athletes.
    Mena Mirhom, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Mundy-Castle, who directed and produced the BAFTA Television-winning doc White Nanny, Black Child in 2024, met Williams – who is known for his Academy Award-winning short film Music By Prudence and other docs such as Life Animated – at the Sheffield DocFest in the same year.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 July 2025
  • Three months later, Pugh filed a lawsuit against Kelly for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and public disclosure of private facts, per court docs obtained by PEOPLE.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Several trips to the pediatrician led to few answers.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 23 July 2025
  • At the culminating event on Saturday, July 19, festivities included the recital with the high school musicians and pupils performing several pieces for the families packed into the reception area of the pediatricians’ office.
    Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • That’s because most doctors – even gynecologists – didn’t receive adequate training on menopause during medical school, according to a study in the Journal of The Menopause Society.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 23 July 2025
  • Cruz shared her idea with the gynecologist, who agreed to try the approach out.
    Rebecca Grant June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Starving to death Gaza medics say dozens have died of malnutrition in recent days as hunger sets in, after Israel cut off all supplies to the enclave for nearly three months from March-May.
    USA Today, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Not only are daily deaths linked to starvation continuing in Gaza, local medics and international aid groups say, but the United Nations reported that since May more than 800 people have been killed while trying to access food from distribution sites run by the GHF.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midwife. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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