Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film Sleeper, Woody Allen awakens from a deep-freeze snooze and finds himself in the 22nd century, surrounded by doctors. Peering through his glasses, Allen locks eyes with a doctor who is similarly bespectacled. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, an eminent Soviet eye surgeon, saw the film while visiting New York, and was disturbed by this myopic vision of the future: "It's not logical, I thought. So I wondered how we could avoid wearing glasses." That concern led Fyodorov to develop a radical new treatment for nearsightedness called radial keratotomy...
SUBMITTING TO A medical examination by a doctor whose practices have been repeatedly challenged seems an action guaranteed to make a woman nervous. Nor is this an unreasonable reaction to the torrent of publicity. Women whose concerns are obstetric--who are primarily worried about how they will have their babies--now have several options which have been instituted in response to the complaint, notably the opportunity to be served by a BWH nurse-midwife. But for the woman with different and sometimes more complicated medical concerns, help does not appear to be on the way. Rather than let such discomfort...
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...
This incident is not particularly damning for Winig, simply be cause his colleagues refuse to speculate on how common it is for a doctor to have three separate formal grievances leveled against him in a decade of practice. One UHS doctor notes that the complaints are so different that they hardly can be grouped together...
...controversy over gynecologic care at University Health Services (UHS) continued this week as it became public that the chairman of the Medical Area's women's committee that is pursuing a formal grievance against UHS Dr. Paul I. Winig '62 had herself filed a personal grievance against the same doctor several years ago. Neither the chairman, Judith Herzfeld, nor Winig commented on whether such an incident occurred...