in Childbirth — Ms. S came to see me for an annual exam and a consultation in my recently opened medical office. She was a healthy 34-year-old woman, married a little more than a year, and interested in becoming pregnant. This type of visit was one of my favorite consultations. My focus is…

I have been delivering babies for a long time. Four years in residency, twelve years in New York, and seventeen years in California. I have two entire walls in my office covered with baby photos, all wearing that special onesie that I give to my patients after their birth…the one…

I finished my residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1997. I have been delivering babies for almost thirty years. I have participated in every type of delivery possible. I have done quick deliveries, and deliveries that took days. I have done emergency deliveries and calm relaxing deliveries. I have done…

photo Kristine Wook/Unsplash Eight months ago a woman called my office and told the receptionist she was six months pregnant and looking for a new doctor for her prenatal care. I am usually skeptical about these calls. They tell me to proceed with caution. I ask myself a litany of…

I see many women in my practice with complaints of irregular, heavy and random bleeding. In fact, this is one of the most common complaints I hear in the peri-menopausal time period. (Second only to “I now have a spare tire around my middle!”) Whenever a woman has irregularly irregular…

As an owner of a private medical practice, the last two and a half years have been a surreal existence in a life of emotional extremes. At the beginning of the pandemic — -before information, (good or bad), before vaccines and before statistics, I felt like many physicians, doing exactly what we always do. We take care of people, showing little regard for our own personal health and safety. We care for our patients the best…

Halfway through my second year of medical school, my husband and I moved from a small apartment to a house. Moving from one bedroom to a two story house in the same town seemed not too daunting a task, so we engaged our extended families and moved furniture and boxes…

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash When I did my residency, there was a team of three doctors who were on call overnight in the delivery room; a junior resident (first or second year), a senior resident (third or fourth year) and an attending physician. As in all residency programs…

I have been working full time as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist for the last 25 years. I used to do what’s called full-scope practice, delivering many babies, doing surgery and seeing patients in various clinic and office settings. For the last 7-plus years I have owned my own small private…