0 a doctor skilled in the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs --
Many gynaecologists have read it, some have reviewed it in medical journals.
Questionnaires were obtained for 283 interviews with a gynaecologist and 93 interviews with a psychiatrist.
Patients seen by psychiatrists as a whole are, by selection, a different group from those seen by gynaecologists, although the two groups overlap.
The groups of patients seen by individual gynaecologists were, however, compared for age structure and marital status and did not differ significantly.
This patient saw the gynaecologist when she was 10 weeks pregnant, but obtained the operation at 19 weeks.
This pause signals the beginning of the interruption and introduces the intervening string (the newly hired gynaecologist).
Behind the brief diagnoses of mental disturbance is an extremely complicated background which has been studied thoroughly by social workers, psychiatrists and gynaecologists.
About 24 % of all patients referred to gynaecologists and 12% of all patients referred to psychiatrists had no questionnaire completed.
