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Donald M. Berwick is vice president for quality-of-care measurement at the Harvard Community Health Plan, and an associate professor of pediatrics at the Medical School...
...Northeast's new prosperity is found in cities as diverse as tiny North Berwick, Me., home of a new Pratt & Whitney jet-engine-parts plant, and old New Haven, Conn., where G & O Manufacturing Co. is building a new $5 million automotive radiator factory. The most glittering showcase is the string of high-technology companies ringing Boston on the Route 128 beltway led by giants like Polaroid, Raytheon and Itek. Massachusetts' 300 hi-tech firms now employ 150,000 workers...
Some critics, acting as if the report were an invitation to a national orgy of hamburgers, French fries and junk food, quickly denounced it with such words as "irresponsible," "conspiratorial" and "slipshod." Said Dr. Donald M. Berwick of the Harvard School of Public Health: "The council is not acting in the best interests of the American people." Representative Fred Richmond of New York, chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition, even suggested that lobbyists for the food industry-particularly meat, dairy and egg producers-"must have been at work here...
...Nobody has suggested that lowering cholesterol levels in people with pathologically high levels does not help" Berwick said, adding, "If you believe it helps unhealthy patients, you have to believe it can help healthy ones...
...Berwick has co-authored a new book, "Cholesterol, Children, and Heart Disease: An Analysis of Alternatives," to be published in July. He argues that too much time and money is spent on finding out who already has a high cholesterol level, and not enough on lowering cholesterol levels before the problems start...