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Doctor Specialties could include:
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Obstetrician
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Obstetrician and Gynecologist (OB-GYN)
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Gynecologist
- Nurse Midwife
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Ob Gyn nurse practitioner
- Pediatrician
- Registered Nurse
- Nurse Practitioner
- Physician Assistants
- Internist
- laboratory technici...
- Family Practice Phy...
- Clinical cytogeneti...
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Public health medicine specialist
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Pharmacist
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Nurse
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Acupuncturist
- Anesthesiologist
- Certified registere...
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Your health care provider can also provide counseling regarding birth control methods, sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention, or pregnancy risk.
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Obstetric and gynecologic surgery refers to procedures that are performed to treat a variety of conditions affecting the female reproductive organs. The main structures of the reproductive system are the vagina, the uterus, the ovaries, and the fa...
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HISTORY OF THE PROFESSION Nurse-midwifery dates back to 1925 in the United States. At that time, Mary Breckenridge developed the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky. The program used public health registered nurses, who had been educated in Engla...
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A physician who specializes in the treatment of children from birth through adolescence. A pediatrician is a physician who has taken extra training in the development and diseases of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults through age 21....
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American pediatrician 1870–1960 A portrait of Owen Wilson. In the preface of "The Care and Feeding of Southern Babies," Wilson said that other similar works focused on childrearing in cooler climates, and therefore were inapplicable to infants in ...
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Nurses in public health settings work with community leaders, health and social-service agencies, high-risk groups, families, and individuals to identify and resolve unmet environmental, social, and health needs. Their role is to provide education...
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Registered nurses, or RNs, are health care professionals who work as part of health care teams to promote health and prevent and treat disease. They are patient advocates and health care educators working to teach not only patients but also famili...
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A nurse practitioner (NP) is a nurse with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing.
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HISTORY OF THE PROFESSION The first Physician Assistant (PA) training program was founded in 1965 at Duke University by Dr. Eugene Stead. Most programs require applicants to have at least 2 years of college experience. Applicants also need some ex...
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After a doctor completes medical school and is licensed to practice medicine, the physician may pursue a rigorous 3 year training program in Internal Medicine.
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A laboratory technician is an individual who, under the direct supervision of a laboratory scientist, processes and prepares samples from humans, animals, food, water, soil, and air for examination and testing and who performs routine laboratory t...
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The American Board of Medical Specialties recognizes Family Medicine as a distinct discipline requiring an additional three years of training for doctors who wish to become Board Certified in this field. Family Medicine doctors are usually primary care providers (PCPs) [formerly general practitioners, or GPs] for the entire family.
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A Medical Geneticist is a doctor who completes a two- to four-year residency training program in medical genetics, and is expert in diagnosis and treatment recommendations for genetically linked diseases. There are four pathways to certification that the medical geneticist may pursue of which clinical cytogenetics is one.
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The anesthesiologist's role is the practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before, during, and after surgery.
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A nurse anesthetist prepares a child for surgery in the operating room. ( Science Source/Photo Researchers . Reproduced by permission.)
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