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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | August 20, 1999
Dr. Theodore P. Reed III, a noted obstetrician and gynecologist, died Monday from complications of surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 77 and lived in Easton.Dr. Reed developed nonoperative office sterilization techniques for women and invented the portable colposcope that is used to detect uterine and cervical cancer.He delivered more than 3,000 babies during a career that began in 1950, said his wife of 54 years, the former Naomi M. Geisenhoner.In the 1970s, Dr. Reed developed a method of blocking the fallopian tubes with a minute amount of silicone rubber that was injected inside the tubes through an instrument called a hysteroscope.
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By Susan Gilbert | June 4, 1996
No one says new mothers have it easy. Nights spent waking up every two hours and days spent trying to figure out just why the baby is crying so much leave about 80 percent of new mothers physically exhausted, emotionally drained and despondent over their seeming inability to do anything well. Call it the baby blues.Most of these women feel better after two weeks, but 10 percent have a form of clinical depression that can last for many months. Mothers with so-called postpartum depression feel so sad, anxious and helpless that they have trouble taking care of the baby and themselves.
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By Fred Rasmussen | December 5, 1996
Dr. Anthony Francis DiPaula Sr., a cheerful Baltimore obstetrician and gynecologist who delivered thousands of babies during his 50-year career, died Sunday of chronic lymphocytic leukemia at the home of his daughter in Towson. He was 81.He was born and raised in Forest Park, the son of an Italian immigrant father who owned a North Avenue fruit store and insisted that his son would attend medical school and one day become a physician."His father, Antonio DiPaula, told him he would be a doctor, and that was it. He had no other choice in this world," said the daughter, Sue Ann Murphy, with a chuckle.
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By Kevin Cowherd | May 25, 1995
With the country in the midst of another baby boom, it's time to talk about one of the more insidious scams perpetrated on prospective parents: the myth of natural childbirth.You'd think that even the most dim-witted individual would sense there's nothing "natural" about a baby the size of a toaster inching down a birth canal with the circumference of a garden hose.Nevertheless, each year hundreds of thousands of soon-to-be moms and dads are ensnared in a con that goes like this:Sometime in the final months of the woman's pregnancy, it is suggested by her well-meaning but addled obstetrician (or the busy-body Earth Mother next door)
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By Fred Rasmussen | March 19, 1994
Dr. Zsigmund J. Toth, a Baltimore obstetrician and gynecologist who temporarily gave up his practice to sail the Atlantic Ocean, died Monday of heart failure at his Bolton Hill residence. He was 77.Against the advice of friends, Dr. Toth fulfilled a lifelong dream when he set sail in October 1971 with his family from Pier 4 in the Ishtar, a 42-foot ketch named for the goddess of fertility."This was something he wanted to do all of his life. So he gave his practice to a friend, and we were gone for nearly three years," said his wife, the former Helen Opuda of Girardville, Pa., whom he married in 1941.
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By Sherry Joe | September 1, 1994
A former Columbia girl, born with cerebral palsy and delivered prematurely, has reached a $4.1 million out-of-court settlement in a medical malpractice suit..With cost-of-living increases from an annuity set up with that money, the settlement reached Monday could give Tracina Woods, now 13, up to $8.6 million during her lifetime, said her attorney, Kenneth C. Vogelstein of Baltimore."It's unusually large," said Mr. Vogelstein, who noted that many malpractice awards range between $200,000 to $2 million.
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By Dr. Genevieve Matanoski | November 30, 1993
I am always interested in saving women from unnecessary surgical procedures, so I was particularly intrigued by a recent piece of research that questions the need for routine episiotomies during childbirth.Sixty percent of American women who deliver their babies vaginally have an episiotomy. For first-time mothers, the figure is even higher -- some 80 percent have an episiotomy. To find out why this is, I spoke to Dr. Frank Witter, acting director of maternal-fetal medicine, and to nurse-midwife Lisa Summers, coordinator of nurse midwifery research at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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By Stephen Vicchio | March 9, 1993
She ventured slowly down that shadowed laneNow bright with wonder and now dark with pain.The trembling thread of life stretched taut and thin,But softly then, new radiance filtered in.% -- Lydia AtkinsonSHORTLY before 12:45 p.m. on a Thursday, my son Reeexecuted a rather nifty right-angle turn at the pelvis and successfully completed his 10-hour trip down the birth canal.My wife did all the work. I received half of the credit. When the boy pushed himself into the light, we both watched as our love miraculously multiplied, a strange and holy alchemy and geometry.
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By Donna Weaver | January 28, 1992
First came 4-pound, 13-ounce Minlo at 11:57 a.m.Then 5-pound, 9-ounce Kognea Marie arrived one minute later.And finally, 6-pound, 3-ounce Siequa checked in at 11:59 a.m.Triplets. Count 'em. A boy, a girl, and another boy. They were born yesterday to 40-year-old Rosa Wonlin of Baltimore at Harbor Hospital Center.It was the first time in 16 years that the South Baltimore hospital, which serves a large area in northern Anne Arundel County, had played host to newborn triplets.Although the babies were bornfour weeks premature, all were doing fine, said neonatologist Dr. Larry Yap.Kognea Marie was receiving oxygen, but her condition wasn't serious.
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By Donna E. Boller | October 27, 1992
Sharon Baker says she didn't really mind having her hysterectomy televised for a group of visiting obstetrician-gynecologists, so long as they didn't know who she was.There was little chance that they'd be able to identify her.What the doctors saw on the color TV screen in the Carroll County General Hospital cafeteria was a tan uterus, some yellow bowel, some dark red blood and tiny metal instruments.The TV was set up for two demonstrations of a new hysterectomy technique devised by local obstetricians-gynecologists Samuel Ahn and Paul Vietz in cooperation with German physician Kurt Semm, a pioneer in surgeries using laparoscopes.