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Is an obstetrician/gynecologist a worker, artist, or scholar? Anxiety of an old professor

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Abbreviations

OBGYN:

Obstetrics and gynecology

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I thank Professor Eric Jauniaux (University College London) for his advice.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan

    Shigeki Matsubara

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SM, a single author, identified the significance and wrote the manuscript. EJ helped me to write this manuscript but did not contribute to this manuscript to the extent that he becomes a coauthor. I wrote his name in Acknowledgements. EJ agreed that his name appears in Acknowledgements of this manuscript.

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Matsubara, S. Is an obstetrician/gynecologist a worker, artist, or scholar? Anxiety of an old professor. Arch Gynecol Obstet 298, 857–858 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-018-4890-6

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