Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages home; their safety and our national honor were at stake. When Vance returned, he objected to my decision to rescue the hostages and wanted to present his own views to the National Security Council Group. At a meeting on April 15, he argued that we should be patient and not do anything that might endanger their safety. No one changed his mind...
Ryan says that the majority of the complainants during her term as patient-advocate were women, many of them with gynecologic concerns. But she notes that "there has definitely been a rise in debate" on such issue in recent years, simply because of increasing national concern with obstetric issues. BWH and UHS doctors say that the broad movement among women's for "natural" childbirth and for more patient participation in the delivery process, has sparked a large proportion of the complaints against UHS. Because the University service has only two gynecologists available to women on the Harvard health plan...
...complaints of all sorts per year--most of them from "nervous parents asking me about their children, which I can't tell them for confidentiality reasons "Of these, he says, "no excess" of the complaints are related to gynecologic practice. The other direct line for complaints is through the patient-advocate, who may receive a slightly greater number, Wacker adds...
Wacker instituted in position of patient-advocate and started some of the consumer council, she adds...
Other doctors argue that BWH's Caesarean rate is high because, as a teaching hospital, it serves as a referral center for high-risk and complicated cases. And they add that concern for the safety for both mother and baby sometimes conflicts with patient preference for "natural" childbirth and maximum choice for the mother, who may not want to be operated on or drugged...