Word: winig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more complicated medical concerns, help does not appear to be on the way. Rather than let such discomfort grow further, the hospital and the women's committee must pursue their new found cooperation and, at last, settle the facts. Both sides owe the patients involved a real answer on Winig's competence not just a flurry of contracictory statistics...
...ANOTHER CHANCE to an real issues of care early this October, when a second woman filed a complaint against Winig--personally, not through the committee charging complicated and serious maltreatment. Because it concerns an individual, this case has rightly been conducted under a tighter cloak of secrecy than the first, but officials revealed last week that according to BWH, at least, that complaint has no grounds either. (The analogous review body at UHS has yet to turn in a decision...
This incident is not particularly damning for Winig, simply be cause his colleagues refuse to speculate on how common it is for a doctor to have three separate formal grievances leveled against him in a decade of practice. One UHS doctor notes that the complaints are so different that they hardly can be grouped together...
Other aspects of the Winig case though, are more troubling, and less easily written off as endemic to the system Reaction of UHS officials to the inquiry has ranged from the skeptical to the frankly paranoid with response to the women's committee sometimes released to the press first, and sometimes...
Committee members points to an apparent discrepancy between initial reactions of BWH and UHS to the first complaint. Though rejecting, the argument that Winig's Caesarian sections were unwarranted BWH chief of gynecology and obstetrics Kenneth J Ryan this fall instituted a series of reforms in the department, including a requirement of prior consultation with the patient before a Caesarian section is performed. Committee members say that action points to some concern over the Winig situation a concern Wacker has maintained is not necessary. And to add a mysterious touch, copies of an anonymous letter to The Crimson made...