TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Performance of OB/GYN Hospitalist Programs A1 - Iriye, Brian K. A2 - Butler, Jennifer R. A2 - Amin, Alpesh N. A2 - Fitzmaurice, Laura E. A2 - Kim, Christine M. PY - 2019 T2 - OB/GYN Hospital Medicine: Principles and Practice AB - In 1899, John Whitridge Williams succeeded Howard Kelly as the obstetrician-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Interestingly at that time, the departments were separated into two, with Dr. Kelly remaining head of the gynecology department and Williams becoming head of the obstetrics department. Although Williams was opposed to this division, he immediately began organizing his department on scientific principles. With the production of William's Obstetrics in 1903, the course of American obstetrics changed to coalesce and document the science of childbirth, with the author referencing over 1100 publications in its original edition.1 Despite the efforts of Williams, the field of OB/GYN failed to win legitimacy by other physicians for what was instead thought of as a role for “skilled laborers” as opposed to true consultants.2 In 1957, Dr. J. A. Rene Simard lamented, “Obstetrics … still remains, in the minds of many, a poor relation of medicine and surgery. Sometimes a good friend will repeat the sally: ‘If your son is intelligent, let him be a physician; if he is clever, let him be a surgeon; if he is neither, let him be an accoucher (obstetrician).’” SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159980628 ER -