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...recent years a number of studies and widely publicized malpractice suits ( have spotlighted the problem of medical incompetence and, particularly, the lack of disciplinary surveillance. The court-martial of Naval Surgeon Donal Billig earlier this year for involuntary manslaughter was a notorious case in point. Despite a record of having been fired by hospitals in two states, being legally blind in one eye and demonstrating skills that were described by a colleague as those of "a first-year resident," Billig had risen to be chief cardiac surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, one of the nation's premier military medical centers...
...doing-in-this-play department, Ted Dane suffers mightily as the hopelessly inadequate Christian. That a honey like Roxanne could ever fall for Dane's sniveling wimp of a Gascon seems harder to believe than that Cyrano could ever see beyond that nose of his. Of the supporting cast, Donal Logue as the rightous Captain Le Bret is appropriately stiff-backed, and nuns Jane Avrich and Chalon Emmons scamper and giggle most agreeably during the last scene...
...Pulitzer board smiled kindly on New York City: the New York Times won two prizes, for a series on Star Wars and the music criticism of Donal Henahan, while one each went to the street-savvy Daily News columns of Jimmy Breslin and the Village Voice cartoons of Jules Feiffer. Knight-Ridder newspapers picked up seven of the 15 newspaper awards, a record for a single chain...
...most coronary-bypass surgery, veins taken from a patient's leg must be deftly sewn to one or more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...
...military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding, the massive system, and Bethesda in particular, has been sorely wounded in recent weeks and may be slow to recover from the strange case of Commander Donal M. Billig, whose court-martial was still under way last week at the Washington Navy Yard...