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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...
Kingston has complained that critics, while generous, misread her work as being about China rather than America. Berkeley Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, the latest in a mob of adapters who have spent nearly two decades trying to find a dramatic idiom for Kingston's work, calls the central character "a troubled, gifted, 12-year-old American girl trapped in a petite Chinese body...
...option of reclaiming the nations Mikhail Gorbachev set free five years ago. But the effect is the same: Yeltsin now says enlarging NATO would be a hostile act. "We haven't a clue what that means exactly," says a senior Clinton Administration official, "but especially because we so completely misread Russia's recent elections -- we thought Yeltsin's forces would win soundly -- we're now more gun-shy than ever about substituting our judgment for his. Yeltsin's our guy. We're not going to undermine him with a policy of neocontainment that boosts the hard-line empire builders. Yeltsin...