Word: uhse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the six months since a Harvard women's advocacy committee first filed a formal grievance against the two gynecologists who practice for University Health Services (UHS), the doctors, the complainants and their many intermediaries have agreed on only one point: Much more is at issue that the initial charge...
Foremost among the questions raised by the Harvard Medical Area's Joint Committee on the Status of Women is whether the complaints UHS periodically receives from patients, especially those about gynecological care, indicate bad practice or simply the "attitudinal" conflicts UHS says are unavoidable when many women must use the...
"The personalities of the doctors has been a problem from year one," says Althea Aschmann, a Harvard employee and one of several numbers of a voluntary oversight council for non-students on the University group health plan. Gynecologic and obstetric medicine has been "a hot issue" for three years, says...
Other council members echoAschmann observations of built-in problems associated with a clinic such as UHS, where all gynecology beyond routine office care is handled by the same two doctors Jerome M. Federschenider and Paul L Winig '62 For example, many familiar with the pair's work describe them as...
"I'm convinced that it's not a question of the quality of technical care people are receiving" says Amy Justice '81 a paid, full-time patient advocate for UHS. "There are times when attitude can get in the way of care." "Justice adds, without being specific, but she also...