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Best OB-GYN: Dr. Mary Bowman
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Dr. Mary Bowman knows birthing in the Boat. Since 1997, the Steamboat Springs obstetrician and gynecologist has presided over more than 120 births per year in the Yampa Valley, meaning a lot of area children have spent their first moments of life outside the womb in her capable hands. “It’s what I’m supposed to be doing,” she says. “Not everyone finds that, so I’m really lucky.” One of three doctors at Yampa Valley OB/GYN, along with Dr. Leslie Ahlmeyer and Dr. Megan Palmer, she says she likes to help women feel empowered to take care of themselves. She also enjoys the long-term relationships she maintains with her patients in the Yampa Valley, something a small town helps foster. When not at the office or delivering babies in the Family Birth Place at Yampa Valley Medical Center, she can be found at home with her husband, Jay, and their 14-year-old son, Nate. Like most residents, she also enjoys everything outdoors that Steamboat has to offer. In the winter, you’ll find her and her family schussing the slopes of Mount Werner, and in the summer, you’ll see them running and mountain biking on trails from here to Utah. Raised in Colorado Springs and Santa Cruz, Calif., she says she loves Steamboat because it’s a community that values its open space, its schools and its public institutions. “People care about this place so much,” she says. “I don’t see us ever living anywhere else.” Bringing new lives Into the Boat: Dr. Mary Bowman in between deliveries.
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