Word: wacker
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...afternoon was sponsored by the Council and the University's newly formed Public Service Program (PSP), with the help of the Cambridge Department of Social Services. "We really wanted to get Harvard people involved with the community," PSP Coordinator Ann M. Wacker said Wednesday...
...Wacker instituted in position of patient-advocate and started some of the consumer council, she adds...
Since the Joint Committee's April grievance was filed, Wacker says he has arranged with Dr. Kenneth J Ryan, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at BWH, to give women on the UHS plan the option of being treated by a BWH nurse midwife instead of by an obstetrician. The midwife option had been in the works for several years, but the grievance probably spend up implementation, says a UHS consumer council member who requested anonymity...
...addition, Wacker says UHS will begin looking more actively for a full-time female gynecologist to supplement Winig and Federschneider, rather than waiting for one of their jobs to open...
...There are very sincere women who feel that the technology being applied to childbirth is unnecessary, and that teaching hospitals use too much technology, "says Wacker, acknowledging the need for continuing discussion. But the questions raised about UHS go beyond choice of technique and involve the University's responsibility to prove to women that they receive the best health care possible...