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...Michelle Harrison had been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel...
Frustrated and embittered, Harrison dropped out of the four-year program after seven months. She vents her anger in her newly published A Woman in Residence (Random House; $13.95), blending diatribe with diary notes she kept during her training. At its crux is Harrison's contention that "physicians are trained and conditioned to see patients as objects to be assembled and reassembled...
...Harrison, the exhaustion was deepened by her responsibilities as a single mother, nagged by worries about child care. Her medical colleagues, she notes again and again, were resentful of her maternal preoccupations and particularly of her part-time status (though she received only half-pay for two-thirds time). "If you aren't willing to give up your child," she was told by a department head at another hospital, "you don't deserve to be an obstetrician-gynecologist...
...patient, of course, who suffers when the doctor is exhausted. "When you work 36 hours at a stretch, all you can do is work by protocol," Harrison explains. As a result, she says, doctors railroad patients into procedures and operations without pausing to consider their wishes. She provides numerous examples of this abuse, adding, "Patients have no choice in what is done to them." In one case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while...
Abscam has led to the conviction on corruption charges of 16 persons, including seven members of Congress and one senator. All of them, despite abundant and expensive legal counsel, have failed to prove they were entrapped. His pious rambling on the Senate floor notwithstanding. Harrison A. Williams remained a man convicted on nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, contact of interest and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. To waste time and sympathy on crooks and bums like Williams opens liberal up to charges of caring only about their own and undermines the effectiveness of the government...