RT Book, Section
A1 Iriye, Brian K.
A2 Butler, Jennifer R.
A2 Amin, Alpesh N.
A2 Fitzmaurice, Laura E.
A2 Kim, Christine M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1159980628
T1 Performance of OB/GYN Hospitalist Programs
T2 OB/GYN Hospital Medicine: Principles and Practice
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259861697
LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159980628
RD 2023/02/03
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).’”