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...institutions most closely associated with the controversial incident refused to join the fray: For six days after the recommendations became public both the University and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) maintained a puzzling silence...
...first public statement on the issue. Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) yesterday "acknowledged" and "regretted" problems in the process by which four staff doctors wrote letters of recommendation for a colleague convicted of rape, and announced its intention to form a committee to review the incident...
...members of the staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital and as members of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, we intend to review this incident thoroughly, to make the results of this review public, and to participate in the development of an effective policy to minimize the risk of such occurrences in the future," he added...
Hussain, Sherry, and a third doctor who is not affiliated with Brigham and Women's were convicted of rape in a highly publicized trial last June. Released pending appeal of his case. Hussain used references from the four BWH physicians to get a job at Buffalo Children's Hospital...
Moreover, this attitude of benign neglect was not limited to the four physicians involved, as the actions taken by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) throughout the controversy strongly suggest. One BWH doctor observed last week that the hospital felt Hussain's trial "didn't have anything to do with his professional abilities." Furthermore, when the new controversy broke, hospital administrators not only remained silent on the issue, but ordered their staffs to avoid comment as well, hoping, as one staff member put it, that the whole thing would "blow over...