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Water Babies
Elkin Obstetrician leads the way offering women alternative birthing method...
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Triplets
"We’re just real excited about this," said Janet Blankenship, 25, from her bed on the obstetrics floor of Chatham Hospital last Monday. "It’s like -- instant family!"...
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New Year's Twins
Television coverage centers in Elkin to record a rare event: twins whose births are split by the start of the new year. "I’ve delivered some 6,500 babies and a lot of those were twins, but this is the first time I’ve delivered twins a year apart," Turrentine said with a smile....
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Accident
It’s not necessarily a miracle John Turrentine’s nasty motorcycle crash 32 years ago will be re-enacted this fall on a national television program. Yes, the Dalton doctor’s real-life story was picked out of 1,000 entries in a special Pax Television promotion, but the real miracle is that Turrentine is alive to talk about it...
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Best Doctor
Elkin’s Dr. John Turrentine has given a lot of children in this area their first spankings, but that didn’t stop people from voting him the best doctor in the Tri-County Area...
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Heroption (Alternative to Balloon Surgery)
Office-based treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding. An alternative to hystercetomy that is perfomed in Dr. Turrentine's office. For heavy bleeding, it has an excellent cure rate of greater than 85%. Until recently, effective surgical control of uterine bleeding depended on hospital-based procedures (most notably, hysterectomy or hysteroscopic endometrial ablation)... Full Article
MIVH
Turrentine developed a new hysterectomy process they called MIVH, Minimally Invasive Vaginal Hysterectomy to combat the negative side of the procedure... Full Article
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