A profile of general practitioner obstetrics.
The pattern of obstetrics as practised by general practitioners in a small country town over a period of 22 years is reviewed. The importance of dedicated nursing staff is emphasized, and an appeal is made for the establishment of maternity units distinctly separate from general hospitals.
D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D009774:Obstetrics; D011247:Pregnancy; D013019:South Africa