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...practitioners charged in the grievance, who work at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, handle all but the most routine gynecological problems for all women enrolled in the Harvard University Group Health Plan, UHS Director Warren E.C. Wacker said yesterday...
...investigation of UHS practices by a Brigham and Women's committee found that all the Cesarian sections cited in the joint committee's grievance were warranted, Wacker said...
...Wacker added that the figures cited in the grievance were a "statistical aberration" because they were taken over too short a time span. He added that BWH investigators are now compiling statistics on deliveries over a full year...
...Today, Wacker says, the statistics are exactly the reverse: freshmen are the least common class to seek psychological help, and seniors are the most common. Wacker offers two possible explanations for this flip-flop: the increasing uncertainty of finding a desirable job or place in graduate school on the senior end, and improved secondary-school counseling on the freshman...
...There are still problems peculiar to incoming freshmen," Wacker says. "It's still a very difficult transition. But I think most freshmen eventually weather it very well...