Virginia Reath, a physician's assistant with a gynecology practice, greets her patients at a wooden mission-style desk.

His mother is the financial manager of his father's obstetrics and gynecology practice in Malone, N.Y.

The bridegroom's mother is a nurse at Engle, Smith & Associates, an obstetrics and gynecology practice in Doylestown, Pa.

His mother, Nancy Z. Sewell, is a secretary at an obstetrics and gynecology practice in Trumbull.

The bridegroom's father is retired from an obstetrics and gynecology practice there.

The bride's father is an office manager in an obstetrics and gynecology practice in Rutherford, N.J.

His mother is the office manager for her husband's obstetrics and gynecology practice in Flushing, Queens.

Indeed, in Tenafly, Dr. Vladimir Klinsky's six-person obstetrics and gynecology practice broke up earlier this year because of soaring insurance rates.

Mrs. Ballard, 41, is a medical assistant at Physicians for Women, an obstetrics and gynecology practice in Danbury, Conn.

They were two-thirds of a bustling obstetrics and gynecology practice that delivered more babies at Beth Israel than any other physician group.