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...military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding, the massive system, and Bethesda in particular, has been sorely wounded in recent weeks and may be slow to recover from the strange case of Commander Donal M. Billig, whose court-martial was still under way last week at the Washington Navy Yard...
...Billig, 55, was chief of Bethesda's cardiothoracic surgery in 1983 and '84. He is charged with five counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from technical foul-ups and poor judgment in the operating room. A five-page list detailing the charges specifies that Billig "wrongfully sewed" and tied blood vessels during bypass surgery, "improperly manipulated" heart tissue and, in one case, "tore" a woman's aorta and "improperly repaired" it. Also listed are 24 counts of dereliction of duty for performing unauthorized operations. If he is convicted on all counts, the surgeon, who was commissioned in December 1982, faces dismissal...
Although Dr. Donal Billig had a flawed record as a physician, he got further than most: in little more than a year, he went from serving on the staff of a Pittsburgh hospital to running cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the Navy's flagship health operation. But his success was of short duration. After an in-house investigation, Bethesda suspended Billig last week for "an insufficient level of surgical competence...
...Billig's problems began when a New Jersey hospital where he was working in 1980 refused to allow him to operate without supervision because of questionable surgical judgment. He later resigned from that facility. After a stint at the Pittsburgh hospital, Billig, a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, was recruited by the Navy. At Bethesda, things began to go bad after ten months. In 1983 the hospital suspended Billig's surgery credentials, later reinstating them. Some reports say the Navy knew of Billig's New Jersey history when it approached him; a naval investigation...
...seemed, was immune from ominous personal criticism or sudden dismissal. The government fired Jozef Kutin, a deputy foreign trade minister, and Wilhelm Billig, head of Poland's nuclear-energy office and a former chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Without explanation, it relieved three top-ranking generals, including the head of the vast Warsaw Military District, of their troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College...