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...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...
This summer there was a changing of the guard at the University Health Services (UHS), as Associate Professor of Medicine David S. Rosenthal '59 was named to succeed outgoing director Warren E.C. Wacker...
...Despite Wacker's departure from the health services, undergraduates will still be able to see the Oliver professor of hygiene in action. He is teaching History of Science 149, a conference course titled "Health Care in the United States...