Word: bwh
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Last May, two researchers in a laboratory at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) saw Dr. John R. Darsee, a research fellow in Medicine, deliberately mislabel a set of results in an experiment on the cause of heart attacks in research animals...
When Darsee's falsification was discovered, the Medical School immediately stripped him of all his academic and clinical appointments at Harvard and BWH, Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the Med School, said in a report released earlier this week. Tosteson also announced the creation of an eight-member review committee to investigate Darsee's case and recommend ways to prevent the same kind of thing from recurring...
...Normally [Darsee's fellowship] would have been renewed automatically," Dr. Jerome G. Green, chairman of the NIH department that granted the fellowship, said this week. He added that BWH officials requested in June that the grant be revoked...
Despite Darsee's loss of his position at BWH and his fellowship his superiors are allowing him to remain in the lab where the experiement took place while the inquiry into his work is underway...
...legal advice received by the physicians who recommended Hussain is certainly relevant to the case, raising as it does questions about the propriety of the hospital's counsel. However, this advice is not, as the fact-finding committee seems to suggest the central issue. Even if BWH attorneys instructed the doctors to omit the rape conviction reference, they were obligated to include it--or to refuse to write the letters at all. Whether or not the doctors acted legally, they did not act ethically and it is this ethical question that the administrators of both institutions must address...