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...year ago few people outside of the Boston medical community had heard of Dr. Arif Hussain. A respected anaesthesiologist at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Hussain was less than a year from completing his residency and would undoubtedly have obtained a good position at one of the top medical centers in the nation. But last winter the doctor's anonymity was shattered, and since then he has been at the center of an increasingly bizarre rape case that has gained nationwide attention. In the subsequent months eyewitnesses have reversed their testimony, jurors have voted...
...September 5, 1980. Dr. Jason Hyams held a party for members of the anaesthesiology department at BWH. It was a seemingly normal social gathering but one session of drinking and flirting got out of hand and what happened later that night triggered a chain of complicated events with far-reaching implications...
President Bok requested the formation of the committee after it was disclosed that three Harvard doctors wrote highly flattering recommendations for Dr. Arif Hussain, a former Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) anaes-thesiologist, after he was found guilty of rape. The letters did not mention Hussain's conviction...
...circumstances around the Hussain affair that led to creation of the committee might also help to change reference writing practice. One of the doctors who recommended Hussain is the head of the BWH Anesthesiology Department, Dr Benjamin G. Covino...
...Benjamin G. Covino, head of the Anaesthesiology Department at BWH, and Dr. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of Anaesthesia, wrote highly flattering references for former resident Dr. Arif Hussain without mentioning his prior rape conviction...