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...felt that the chemical companies had surrendered to an unjustified payoff, the share prices of the five companies on the New York Stock Exchange rose after the news. Some veterans felt that their side had sold out. "This was the settlement the chemical companies were looking for," said Lee Covino, a Viet Nam veteran in New York City. "The vets had no say in this." But most seemed to agree with Frank McCarthy, president of the Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Victims. "It's an incredible start," he proclaimed. "We wanted a trust fund, and we got it without going...
Earlier this month the MMS officially censured and placed on probation Drs. Benjamin Covino, head of the anaesthesiology department at BWH. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of anaesthesiology, and John A. Wark, a former anaesthesiology staff member at BWH, for writing the recommendations. The censure is the harshest disciplinary action short of expulsion the society can hand down. Although the MMS is not directly involved with issuing licenses, it will inform the state board of their action. However, Dr. William B. Munier, the society's executive vice president, said recently he did not think the letters were a serious enough action...
...circumstances around the Hussain affair that led to creation of the committee might also help to change reference writing practice. One of the doctors who recommended Hussain is the head of the BWH Anesthesiology Department, Dr Benjamin G. Covino...
...Benjamin G. Covino, head of the Anaesthesiology Department at BWH, and Dr. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of Anaesthesia, wrote highly flattering references for former resident Dr. Arif Hussain without mentioning his prior rape conviction...
Tosteson said the BWH report places the onus both on the legal advice that the faculty members received [from hospital attorneys] and on the faculty members," Covino Gissen and Wark