Word: stephenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dr. Stephens could so easily have taken his patient to a non-Catholic hospital, a few miles away, if he had desired to abide by medical ethics. However, by his own admission, he hoped to" get by without the administrators' knowledge of his act . . . By so doing, he repudiated...
I object to the tenor of your article which portrays Dr. Stephens being persecuted in his "dilemma" . . .
Again Dr. Stephens was in a dilemma. He felt that he could not defy the sister. He decided it would be quickest, and least dangerous for the patient, to reopen the peritoneum and untie the tubes. That is what he did.
The Doors of Mercy. For violating its code of ethics (which it shares with other Roman Catholic hospitals in the U.S.), Mercy Hospital denied Dr. Stephens the use of its facilities for his patients. Within hours, another of his patients reached the hospital, going into labor. She was told that...
In the ruckus last week over the case, most of Brownsville's townspeople backed Dr. Stephens. So did fellow doctors, though none could raise his voice for fear that he, too, would find the doors of Mercy Hospital shut in his patients' faces.