Word: uhse
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University Health Services (UHS) director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker formally stated that he felt the grievance filed against a UHS gynecologist last spring had no validity. But Harvard attributed Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where UHS's only two gynecologists practice, is increasing its scrutiny of practices questioned...
He said he has not heard of a recent grievance filed against University Health Services (UHS) for its gynecological practices but intends to make inquiries about it.
The group that lodged the formal complaint against UHS--the Medical Area-based Joint Committee on the Status of Women--has similar doubts, and so do we. Charging Wacker and BWH have responded insufficiently to their allegations, members of the committee have renewed their demand that UHS disclose some annual...
Wacker and Ryan, on the other hand, argue that despite the statistics, every one of Winig's Caesarian sections checks out as medically appropriate. Given that fact, they contend, statistics don't matter, especially over so short a period. The women's committee retorts that with all other complaints dismissed...
By arguing exclusively on the Caesarian section complaint, the Joint Committee appears to be letting slide other gripes women have voiced about UHS. If the problem is as widespread as the range of complaints attest, then statistics or no the committee should push for a more comprehensive investigation.