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...Recent events have focused attention on deficiencies in the process by which letters of reference were written regarding Dr. Arif Hussain. We acknowledge these deficiencies and deeply regret them. We also regret that public confidence concerning professional peer review has been diminished," Dr. William Hassan Jr., acting president of BWH, said in a two-paragraph statement on behalf of the hospital...
...committee which Tosteson will probably appoint sometime in the next week will review the situation of four Harvard-affiliated doctors who wrote letters of recommendation for Hussain, failing to mention that he had been convicted of simple rape only a few weeks before...
...executive committee, which approved the statement yesterday, also passed a resolution last Friday recommending that Hussain and Dr. Eugene Sherry, his co-defendent in the case, be terminated from the hospital staff. Both doctors have been on leaves of absence without pay since their indictments last June, but both are still formally affiliated with the hospital...
...most important questions is how thoroughly the Buffalo Children's Hospital verified recommendations for Hussain...
Representatives of the New York hospital originally said Dr. Martin J. Downey, chief of anesthesiology in Buffalo, had contacted the letter writers prior to hiring Hussain...