Word: wacker
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Deficits at UHS had been large during the 1980s, but in the final years of Wacker's tenure they seemed to be receding. UHS ran deficits of just $71,965 and $43,003 in Wacker's final two years. Since Rosenthal took over, the health service has run a balanced budget, although the total amount of the budget has increased more than 10 percent a year to keep up with rising costs...
...fact, UHS administrators at times seem complacent about the quality of care they feel they provide to the Harvard community. In his opening statement to the 1988-1989 annual report, former UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker wrote that the health service was "not qualitatively better than it was in 1971, but more comprehensive in what we have to offer the community...
...committee's solution was to do no risk communication in the short term. Instead, they decided to study the problem further, "discuss" the test results and then choose the appropriate--presumably soothing--language with which to inform Harvard affiliates of tainted water. Rosenthal said that he and Dr. Warren Wacker, former director of UHS, felt that the THM levels posed no "obvious health risk...
Rosenthal and Wacker may also be wrong about the risks of THMs; prolonged exposure to the chemicals may have serious health consequences. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that "THMs in drinking water...[present] rather chronic or lifetime risks that increase with long-term exposure." Students and staff don't know whether 16 months of exposure poses a serious threat. That's why they deserve a thorough assessment of the risks involved as well as the facts of the water contamination...