Word: brigham
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...Committee on the Status of Women. The Health Service has responded by hiring an obstetrical nurse-practitioner who provides pre-natal care, offers Pregnancy and New Parent classes, and supplies appropriate educational materials. In addition, the Health Service has been looking into possible participation in the midwifery program at Brigham & Women's Hospital and is planning to employ a third obstetrician (preferably female...
...Joint Committee complaint on Caesarian section charged that Winig had delivered an unnecessarily high percentage of babies using the operation over a five-month period at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, Doctors nation wide "have for several years debated the safety and advisability of relying heavily on the Caesarian technique, which involves surgery, and conventional birthing methods...
Winig says that the second complaint "has not come to [him] yet" Of the Joint Committee's April grievance in made that a review by Brigham and Women's Hospital officials found nothing wrong with his decision on delivery technique and that he is currently re-reviewing" his disputed operations with senior Brigham and Women's doctors...
University Health Services (UHS) director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker formally stated that he felt the grievance filed against a UHS gynecologist last spring had no validity. But Harvard attributed Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where UHS's only two gynecologists practice, is increasing its scrutiny of practices questioned in the complaint...
...dismissed the complaint that a UHS gynecologist had performed too many Caesarian sections was probably a much greater matter of concern. So was the fact that Dr. Warren E. C. Walker, director of UHS, and Dr. Kenneth J. Ryan, head of gynecology and obstetrics at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital--where the disputed operations took place--say they are now satisfied that nothing is amiss...