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...group that lodged the formal complaint against UHS--the Medical Area-based Joint Committee on the Status of Women--has similar doubts, and so do we. Charging Wacker and BWH have responded insufficiently to their allegations, members of the committee have renewed their demand that UHS disclose 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...
...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...
They have continued to press their case, urging BWH to provide a promised year's worth of statistics on Ceasarian section operations In part, they contest the committee's interpretation saying the patient records indicating appropriateness" of the operation are insufficient evidence...
...says Dr. Warren E C. Wacker, director of UHS Wacker says he believes the statistics in the complaint, though correct in themselves, constitute a "statistical aberration" because they refer only to a five-month period: in addition, he expresses dismay that the figures were apparently copied out of a BWH delivery log, in violation of patients' confidentiality rights...
...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...