Word: howarth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Dr. Hayes told Mrs. Charles Howarth in November, 1951 that she should have part of her stomach removed, he added that for the operation he would need Dr. Walters' help. In fact, he telephoned Walters while Mrs. Howarth and her husband were present. But months later, she learned that instead of Surgeon Walters' assisting Physician Hayes, it had been the other way round. Because she had not known in advance that Walters would perform the actual operation-and since he had never examined her-this was a violation of medical ethics...
Since Mrs. Howarth had at least known that Dr. Walters was being called in, the case was not the worst example of the evils of ghost surgery. But the San Diego society evidently agreed with Dr. Hawley, who said last year: "No surgeon should do any cutting until he has examined the patient himself. [A] ghost surgeon simply cuts where he is told to cut and takes no responsibility for anything that happens afterward...
Evan G. Galbraith and James S. Gratton will argue for the Scott Club, upholding the law's constitutionality. The other third year members of the Scott Club are Milton C. Boesel, Jr., Donn W. Carlsmith, Thomas R. H. Howarth, Paul C. Lambert, Richard L. Ottinger, and Charles C. Wright...