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Members of the Board of Overseers--who must give consent for the final choice to be official--have not yet approved the search committee's decision...
...However, Charles P. Slichter '45, who sat on the two previous search committees that chose Presidents Derek C. Bok and Rudenstine, said the overseers' consent has historically come at a physical meeting of the Board of Overseers...
...guidelines, drawn up after the Clinton administration received more than 50,000 suggestions and comments from the public, would require health care providers to get patients' written consent before using or disclosing any information in their medical records. In a breakthrough for patients' rights groups, patients would also have a federal right to review and copy their own medical records, and to make corrections. Patients could also demand a complete list of the people who had seen their medical records - lists that would be kept by the health care providers...
...There are, in history, some times when they didn't like the choice and it took some trying for the consent to be given," says Slichter. "The problem is for the Overseers to feel that they are sufficiently knowledgeable about the nominees and process to give consent...
...course, uninformed medical consent is a problem not exclusive to electroshock, and judges can force other kinds of treatment as well. But electroshock is an unusually retro procedure, one that some psychiatrists avoid. According to the Surgeon General, the response rate for electroshock is an impressive 60% to 70%--about the same as today's superpills, including Prozac and its kin. But that fact itself embarrasses some psychiatrists, who would rather not think of themselves as well-educated electricians. Not all psychiatric residents learn electroshock. Younger psychiatrists are more ambivalent about it than older ones, according to a 1999 survey...