Word: wacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 gynecological statistics which they say may well support their charges. More significantly, they have said they lodged the complaint--based on anonymously mailed statistics on delivery-rook records--primarily to draw attention to what they call a wide variety of complaints about the same doctor, Paul I. Winig...
...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 as "attitudinal" conflicts, stemming from UHS "traditional" approach to birthing, statistics are the only evidence that can stick...
...Kestnbaum and others had backed away from their initially strident position, saying that the College had not made a firm promise and that only an ambiguously worded agreement was in question. She added that PBH officials have been working closely with the University's choice. Ann M. Wacker, in order to avoid future conflicts...
Because the College program would employee two people Wacker and Wayne Meisel--Kestnbaum said she doubts the program could effectively reach out into Cambridge communities...
Meisel, however stressed that the two groups have similar goals and that he and Wacker will seek to coordinate efforts informally with PBH. The advantage of the Harvard set up he said is that it might induce students reluctant to become heavily involved in PBH to do community work...