Word: caesarians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight-hour method will be available by year's end. Only six months ago it took from two to seven days to diagnose herpes. Speed is especially important in the case of women who are about to give birth. If the disease is active, doctors generally resort to caesarian delivery since the baby may become infected-often fatally-while passing through the birth canal...
Unfortunately, the issue that both sides have focused on is easily the most abstruse. The women's initial complaint last April charged that D. Paul I Winig '62 had performed proportionally far too many Caesarian sections. The same letter cited a less quantifiable "consistent pattern" of complaints and discomfort about his practice generally...
Undergraduates might find a complaint against UHS focusing on pregnancy procedures somewhat remote. Both sides have exacerbated this problem by losing sight of the initial reason for emphasizing Caesarians that virtually all one on one patient doctor confrontations can be dismissed thy a defensive hospitals as clashes of personality, but statistics are harder to ignore. The Caesarian question then was intended primarily as a "hook" for other less quantifiable complaints. But UHS has had a simple reply to their statistics that they don't check out Dr. Warren E.C. Waeker responds in a wide variety of ways, which all point...
Committee members points to an apparent discrepancy between initial reactions of BWH and UHS to the first complaint. Though rejecting, the argument that Winig's Caesarian sections were unwarranted BWH chief of gynecology and obstetrics Kenneth J Ryan this fall instituted a series of reforms in the department, including a requirement of prior consultation with the patient before a Caesarian section is performed. Committee members say that action points to some concern over the Winig situation a concern Wacker has maintained is not necessary. And to add a mysterious touch, copies of an anonymous letter to The Crimson made...
...Many, many of us are very concerned about this, and we are not taking it lightly," another committee member, who asked not to be identified, said. "There's no question that a lot of Caesarian sections are being done...