Word: arif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago few people outside of the Boston medical community had heard of Dr. Arif Hussain. A respected anaesthesiologist at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Hussain was less than a year from completing his residency and would undoubtedly have obtained a good position at one of the top medical centers in the nation. But last winter the doctor's anonymity was shattered, and since then he has been at the center of an increasingly bizarre rape case that has gained nationwide attention. In the subsequent months eyewitnesses have reversed their testimony, jurors have voted...
THOUGH CONVICTED of rape last June, Harvard-affiliated doctors Arif Hussain. Alan Lefkowitz and Eugene Sherry apparently can still officially practice medicine. The reasons for this amazing paradox: the review process for convicted doctors is so beset by red tape and cumbersome regulations--and the state licensing board is so underfunded--that many physicians more qualified for jail than office hours can continue practicing medicine indefinitely...
...individual's competence, possibly malpractice, or even drinking habits. But in cases involving doctors who have already been convicted of crimes, the board's scrutiny should be much shorter and quicker. Had the board been empowered to review in speedy fashion a doctor's case immediately after his conviction, Arif Hussain could never have quietly obtained a position on the staff of the Buffalo Children's Hospital some two months after his trial ended, while his case was awaiting appeal. And an embarrassing controversy surrounding the colleagues who recommended Hussain for his Buffalo post would never have erupted...
President Bok requested the formation of the committee after it was disclosed that three Harvard doctors wrote highly flattering recommendations for Dr. Arif Hussain, a former Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) anaes-thesiologist, after he was found guilty of rape. The letters did not mention Hussain's conviction...
...Benjamin G. Covino, head of the Anaesthesiology Department at BWH, and Dr. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of Anaesthesia, wrote highly flattering references for former resident Dr. Arif Hussain without mentioning his prior rape conviction...