Word: brigham
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...executive committee of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), which has been reviewing the case of four doctors who wrote letters of recommendation for a colleague without mentioning his prior rape conviction, will make a major statement on the issue this morning, sources at the hospital and Harvard Medical School said yesterday...
...four doctors who wrote recommendations for Hussain are: Dr. Benjamin G. Covino, professor of anaesthesia and head of the anaesthesiology department at BWH; Dr. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of Anaesthesia at the Affiliated Hospital Center; Dr. Ronald A. Gabel, assistant professor of Anaesthesia at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; and Dr. John Wark, a former staff member...
Ronald Anderson, assistant professor of Medicine at Robert Bent Brigham and a BWH affiliate, agreed that staff members are worried and said, "there is a general feeling that [Hussain's] initial trial was an event that had little to do with his medical performance," but "the letters of recommendation ceased to be just a personal affair--They were associated with the name of Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...Harvard doctors who wrote the favorable recommendations and Medical School officials have declined to comment on the letters. Later in the week, the Massachusetts Medical Society said it would investigate the four doctors who wrote the favorable recommendations for Hussain, all but one of whom still work for Brigham and Women's Hospital. In addition, President Bok has asked the Medical School dean to have the school's faculty council investigate the matter and form a committee to draw up a policy for writing recommendations...
...Benjamin Covina. head of anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a professor at the Medical School, and two other doctors wrote Hussian "impeccable recommendations" after the first trial ended, Sullivan said...