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...quality of the health care they are subsidizing. The Pacific Business Group on Health, an association of 35 companies that collectively buys $3 billion in health insurance each year, has begun paying for studies comparing health outcomes among various managed-care plans with respect to asthma care and bypass surgery. "It's shameful that people not in the [health care] business have to initiate these studies," says Patricia Powers, the group's executive director. "But we don't see the health-care industry taking on these kinds of projects...
Patients who suffer a mild heart attack may not need angioplasty or bypass surgery. A study out last week finds that two years after the heart attack, the rates of recurrence and death are about the same for patients who undergo invasive procedures as for those who are treated conservatively, with, say, monitoring and medication...
According to Rudenstine, the case was reviewed by the Academic Deans group in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who "concurred with the department's judgment concerning the extraordinary quality of the case and the need for a swift decision." He then decided to bypass the ad hoc committee and offer tenure to Myers...
Some however applauded Harvard's decision to bypass...
Furthermore, both Knowles and Rudenstine say the Myers case was not the first to bypass the ad hoc committee...