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...Last August HEW required the University of Washington to present statistical information about its 15,000 staff and faculty members in a new computerized format. The cost of this change: $50,000. The cost of complying with federal requirements in the past two years, says University Vice President Philip Cartwright, runs "into hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Complex Causes. Lawyers, on the other hand, tend to attribute the increase to the physicians' own incompetence. "The reason why there are medical malpractice suits is that there is medical malpractice," says Robert Cartwright, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (A.T.L.A.). Both sides distrust the insurance companies, which claim enormous losses on malpractice insurance but have thus far declined to disclose any firm figures to back up their demands for ever higher premiums (a typical charge for a high-risk specialist nowadays: $20,000 a year or more...
...Cartwright, move over. NBC'S Columbo, the disheveled shamus portrayed by Peter Folk, has joined ranks with Bonanza and I Love Lucy reruns as one of America's top TV exports. Now shown in 75 countries, the series has just been voted Japan's most popular television show in a poll conducted by the Japanese TV Guide. Falk's international success has not come smoothly, however. When Rumania's state TV network ran out of shows, fans of the raincoated detective began to protest, and the beleaguered network cabled Universal Studios for temporary relief. Said...
Lawyers are happier with the ruling than psychiatrists. The president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Robert E. Cartwright, who believes the ruling is defined narrowly enough to be workable, dismissed the argument that patients will drop out of therapy or hide their intentions from therapists. "People in a violent frame of mind," said he, "don't read court decisions...
Bonanza may no longer be filling prime time on TV, but the spirit of the Ponderosa gallops on. Big Ben Cartwright rode into Washington last week to lobby for some of the constituents of Ponderosa ranch: horses. Along with Papa Charcoal, the American Horse Protection Association's mascot, Actor Lome Greene gave a press conference opposite the White House, asking for legislation to curb the cruelties inflicted on horses in the U.S. Greene, who has his own ranch in California's San Fernando Valley, has joined the board of the A.H.P.A. Said one fan who had gathered round...