Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conscience is absolutely clear. I'm sorryto be misread by people but what I've said all mylife is down there in black and white.... I feelvery peaceful about the whole thing," he said.Crimson File PhotoAL GORE '69 is shown above deliveringHarvard's 1994 Commencement address...
Wisconsin authorities filed a rare criminal case against a medical laboratory. Prosecutors charged Chem-Bio Corp. with reckless homicide, accusing the firm of lapses that allegedly led it to misread the Pap smears of two women who subsequently died of cervical cancer. The lab, which faces a maximum $20,000 fine, said it would fight the charges...
Milwaukee's Chem-Bio Corp. was charged with reckless homicide for allegedly missing what experts called unmistakable signs of cancer on the Pap smears of two women. Dolores Geary and Karin Smith died of cervical cancer in 1993, years after the Pap smears were allegedly misread. Filing criminal charges in a negligence case is extremely rare. The families of both victims had already won multimillion-dollar settlements from the lab and the women's HMO, Family Health Plan...
...answer to both questions is yes is not a contradiction. Rather, it confirms the significance of the principles at the heart of this case. These principles cannot be ignored out of compassion for Gina Grant. Nor should Harvard retreat from asserting them simply because some people want to willfully misread the issue so that they can bait Harvard for being elitist...
...suspects that in Benny's case, patient and doctors failed to understand one another's priorities. Perhaps the boy felt his pain was not being taken seriously enough. Perhaps the medical team misread the young man's growing determination to choose his own fate. "Often when problems like this arise, there's a miasma of suspicion about families and how trustworthy they are," says James Nelson, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. Someone from the Pittsburgh team decided to call the child-abuse hot line in Florida to try to force Benny to renew treatment...