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...women's advocacy committee first filed a formal grievance against the two gynecologists who practice for University Health Services (UHS), the doctors, the complainants and their many intermediaries have agreed on only one point: Much more is at issue that the initial charge that a doctor performed too many Caesarian sections during a five month period...
...Joint Committee complaint on Caesarian section charged that Winig had delivered an unnecessarily high percentage of babies using the operation over a five-month period at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, Doctors nation wide "have for several years debated the safety and advisability of relying heavily on the Caesarian technique, which involves surgery, and conventional birthing methods...
...week after the initial grievance on caesarian sections became public in September, committee members say, another women liked a grievance with UHS against Winig, allying maltreatment five years ago when the woman was a Harvard graduate student...
...arguing exclusively on the Caesarian section complaint, the Joint Committee appears to be letting slide other gripes women have voiced about UHS. If the problem is as widespread as the range of complaints attest, then statistics or no the committee should push for a more comprehensive investigation...
Though numbers seem intrinsically "harder" than anecdotes, it's quite possible that the matter of Caesarian section frequency is not the best way to approach a problem of alleged malpractice. Difficult and embarrassing though it may be, more women must follow the lead of their courageous colleagues and come forward to press their cases. If true, the problem is too serious to lose sight...