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...Wacker says he personally receives between 10 and 20 UHS related complaints of all sorts per year--most of them from "nervous parents asking me about their children, which I can't tell them for confidentiality reasons "Of these, he says, "no excess" of the complaints are related to gynecologic practice. The other direct line for complaints is through the patient-advocate, who may receive a slightly greater number, Wacker adds...
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 in the complaint...
...Wacker stated this week that the practice cited in the complaint "does not differ significantly" fromthat of his colleagues at the hospital However Wacker did not rule out the possibility of further investigations...
...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...