Word: bwh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled this week that Arif Hussain, a former clinical fellow in Anaesthesiology 'at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and Alan Lefkowitz did not present sufficient grounds for reconsideration of their conviction, which the Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld three years...
...doctor's and another former BWH clinical fellow, Eugene Sherry, were convicted in June 1981 of taking a BWH nurse from a Boston party to a Rockport beach house and raping her. Hussain and Lefkowitz, have since lost their licenses to practice medicine, served six-month prison sentences and lost a series of appeals culminating in the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling...
Gerald Boucher, age 44, of South Hadley, Mass., died from rejection of his second heart after doctors at the Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the donor, a 38 year-old Connecticut nurse who died in an accident, gave him a $57,000 new lease on life 10 months...
...could not praise the surgeons at BWH enough," said Boucher's widow Elaine L'Abbee. "He [Boucher] had a happy an productive 10 months with his new heart and I think BWH is the best hospital in the world...
...operation also involves much more than the theoretical potential of the transplant to extend the baby's life, it also involves presenting a true assessment of the process to the public, says Raphael H. Levey, chief of transplants surgery at BWH. "I'm not glad the operation was tried at this time. Cyclosporin is not the miracle drug it's cracked up to be and it's not good to create hype and give false hope to the public, while seeking undue publicity for an unjustified operation...