Word: winig
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Other council members echoAschmann observations of built-in problems associated with a clinic such as UHS, where all gynecology beyond routine office care is handled by the same two doctors Jerome M. Federschenider and Paul L Winig '62 For example, many familiar with the pair's work describe them as "traditional" in approach, a term used by some to suggest only a reliance on mechanical rather than "natural" childbirth methods and interpreted by others to imply a brusque office manner...
...Joint Committee complaint on Caesarian section charged that Winig had delivered an unnecessarily high percentage of babies using the operation over a five-month period at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, Doctors nation wide "have for several years debated the safety and advisability of relying heavily on the Caesarian technique, which involves surgery, and conventional birthing methods...
...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...
...issue in the Winig inquiry is the delicate matter of how much to trust statistics. The Joint Committee's figures show that Winig's Caesarian section rate, when compared to that of his colleague Dr. Jerome Federschneider, show markedly more readiness to perform Caesarian sections. The formal grievance calls for a comparison of Winig's rate of Caesarians with the rate for all of BWH for a year--a figure still forthcoming...
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...