Word: winig
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Citing statistics received from an anonymous source, the Med Area's Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW) charged that one of the two UHS obstetrician-gynecologists, Dr. Paul I. Winig '62, had performed too high a proportion of Ceasarian sections...
...Kenneth J. Ryan, head of BWH's department of gynecology and obstetrics, says the hospital "has an obligation to know what is going on. "The hospital's standing committee on hospital practices will soon conclude its investigation by comparing the proportion of Ceasarian sections for Winig--the doctor in question--with the proportion performed in BWH as a whole, based on some 8000 births over the last year...
...Joint committee on the Status of Women, an administrative organization for women in the Medical Area, filed the grievance last April after receiving statistics from an anonymous source which indicated that the two doctors--Dr. Paul I. Winig '62 and Dr. Jerome M. Federschneider--had allegedly performed an unusually high percentage of deliveries by Cesarian section or forceps over a five-month period in 1981, a committee member said...
...Winig said yesterday in a telephone interview that he was never directly contacted by investigators in regard to the grievance. "None of them were worthy of response by me," he said. Federschneider was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...Most people who consent to sterilization are older people who have completed their families. Occasionally, younger people without families will come in, but I try to discourage them from sterilization because there are so many other ways to keep them from getting pregnant without using such an irrevocable procedure," Winig added...