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...posh 176-bed Feldberg Building has already won a reputation among patients as the hotel with nurses and operating rooms. It is far more than that. More than a decade in the planning, the wing caps a long campaign by Beth Israel's innovative director, Dr. Mitchell Rabkin, 45, to ensure patients a "full bill of rights," which he feels is long overdue. As the Harvard-educated endocrinologist puts it: "We have reached the point where doctors and hospitals can really tyrannize patients...
...Rabkin's favorite innovations is what he calls "a telephone hot line for patients," which enables them to call direct from their rooms to the hospital service manager if a bulb burns out or the kitchen is late in delivering dinners ordered from one of the seven different room-service menus. Says Rabkin: "I have seen a lumpy mattress replaced within 20 minutes of the hotline call...
...part of what doctors say is a larger pattern of nonaggressive treatment of moribund patients. "You have a patient, 90 years old, with metastatic cancer; he's dying. What DNR means to physicians is, 'Look fellas, no heroics. Let the poor guy die in peace,"' Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin, '51, associate professor of medicine and general director of the Beth Israel Hospital, says...
Sachar's stress on faculty members teaching more courses showed "the Administration has not changed its myopic view," Rabkin said. Rabkin asked why the Administration couldn't take more action itself--by hiring more teachers, for example...
Students go back to classes tomorrow morning. At the very least, Rabkin said, the boycott has made the administration aware of the undergraduates' concern...