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...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...
...Recent events have focused attention on deficiencies in the process by which letters of reference were written regarding Dr. Arif Hussain. We acknowledge these deficiencies and deeply regret them. We also regret that public confidence concerning professional peer review has been diminished," Dr. William Hassan Jr., acting president of BWH, said in a two-paragraph statement on behalf of the hospital...
...statement, which closely parallels one issued by President Bok last Friday, was adopted after joint talks last week between Bok, Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the Med School, and F. Stanton Deland, chairman of the BWH Board of Trustees...
...review will be conducted by a joint committee appointed by Tosteson and composed of members of both the Med School faculty and the BWH staff, Deland said yesterday, adding, "Our doctors are so busy already, we didn't want to duplicate work...
...BWH executive committee, which approved the statement yesterday, also passed a resolution last Friday recommending that Hussain and Dr. Eugene Sherry, his co-defendent in the case, be terminated from the hospital staff. Both doctors have been on leaves of absence without pay since their indictments last June, but both are still formally affiliated with the hospital...