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High Costs. Their protests are proving expensive. A four-week walkout by California physicians, which ended last week after the state legislature pledged to work toward a permanent solution of the malpractice mess, cost San Francisco Bay Area hospitals an estimated $2.5 million in lost charges, hit 4,500 furloughed hospital workers for $12 million in lost pay. The New York action could be even more costly. Some of the hardest-hit hospitals have already begun laying off employees. Dr. John Connorton, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, said that 25 voluntary hospitals, half of them...
Members of the graduating class at Stanford University have planned a mass walkout for the middle of their commencement ceremony Sunday to protest the appearance of Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and ambassador-designate to the United Nations, student and administration sources said yesterday...
...California walkout was the most drastic response yet to the steep rise in premiums set by one of the nation's leading malpractice insurers, Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif. (TIME, May 5). Claiming that soaring malpractice awards were causing it to lose money, Argonaut last January announced that beginning in May it would raise its premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed...
...majority of the 46 hospitals affected by the walkout have not scheduled any nonemergency surgery since May 1. As a result, St. Luke's was operating at only 44% of capacity last week; St. Francis Memorial reported that 118 of its 297 beds were empty. The lack of patients hit the hospitals right in their pocketbooks. Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center laid off 20% of its staff. St. Luke's let 33% go. Union officials estimated that half of San Francisco's 9,000 hospital workers would be off their jobs by week...
...dispute that led to the walkout began with a February announcement by President Donald Hornig, a science adviser to President Johnson, that Brown would have to trim its budget by 15% and its faculty by 16.5% over the next three years. The school was facing a $4 million deficit and could no longer afford to support its full academic program, one of the most innovative in the Ivy League. A student committee met with the administration but could not work out a compromise. When it became apparent that the university was adamant, the students voted last week to boycott their...