Word: cesarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Complaints have included the case of a woman who allegedly "came close to dying" because of an undiagnosed infection, another who allegedly became pregnant after a "clearly slipping" intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) was not corrected, and charges that the two UHS doctors performed Cesarian sections with insufficient cause, according to an official on the committee that filed the formal grievance...
...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...
...investigation of UHS practices by a Brigham and Women's committee found that all the Cesarian sections cited in the joint committee's grievance were warranted, Wacker said...