Word: ceasarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citing statistics received from an anonymous source, the Med Area's Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW) charged that one of the two UHS obstetrician-gynecologists, Dr. Paul I. Winig '62, had performed too high a proportion of Ceasarian sections...
Though a hospital investigating committee reported soon after that all the Ceasarian sections in question were medically appropriate, members of the women's committee are not convinced...
They have continued to press their case, urging BWH to provide a promised year's worth of statistics on Ceasarian section operations In part, they contest the committee's interpretation saying the patient records indicating appropriateness" of the operation are insufficient evidence...
...more important they continue to aver that the particular complaint of Ceasarian sections which affects only a small proportion of the Harvard affiliated women who use the facility is only the tip of the iceberg as fat as bad gynecologic practice is concerned...
...Kenneth J. Ryan, head of BWH's department of gynecology and obstetrics, says the hospital "has an obligation to know what is going on. "The hospital's standing committee on hospital practices will soon conclude its investigation by comparing the proportion of Ceasarian sections for Winig--the doctor in question--with the proportion performed in BWH as a whole, based on some 8000 births over the last year...
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