Edition: U.S. / Global  MY JOB; Happy to Be Co-Pilot During
Labor  By JONATHAN LANZKOWSKY, M.D.; Written with Ellen Rapp.
Published: June 27, 2001  Previously, I was with a managed care
practice and saw as many as eight patients an hour -- about six
minutes a patient. Now I see about three patients in an hour.
The other day a patient came in, 38 weeks pregnant. She said,
''I'm scared.'' It takes a lot longer than six minutes to
respond to that.  Pregnancy is a fragile time, especially a
first pregnancy. Much of what I do is offer reassurance. Almost
half of my obstetric patients are over 35, and there is a lot of
concern. I've gotten telephone calls late at night. I'm a new
father myself, and I understand the fears.  You don't really
know everything is going to be O.K. until you're actually
holding the baby. If my patients had access to an ultrasound
machine the way I do, they would have ultrasounds every week.  A
specialty here is treating patients who have had multiple
miscarriages. A lot of them have diffi