Word: processing
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...reduce the number of caesarean deliveries, hospitals often increase the number of vaginal deliveries among women who have already had one or more caesarean sections-a process known as a trial of labor. Thirty-five percent of all caesareans are performed on patients who have previously had at least one caesarean delivery...
Cefalo urged hospitals to reduce the number of caesarean sections by better monitoring the labor process and by not rushing to perform the procedure...
...more generally a failure to respect the ethics of procedure. As I pointed out in a letter of Nov. 9, 1998, to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson, the good character of my colleagues in the Department of Government does not obviate the need for fair process in tenure review at Harvard (the letter, along with other pertinent documents, can be found at ). Indeed, recognition of the necessity for procedural safeguards, without reference to the quality in individual character, is already, in a variety of ways, built in to Harvard's tenure review system...
...example, one learns from Dean Thompson's own memo of March 27, 1998, concerning "The Tenure Appointment Process in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," that regardless of individual character faculty associate deans routinely recuse themselves from matters touching on tenure review in their home departments. A letter to me and my advisor, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, of Oct. 21, 1998, from Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, chair of the Department of Government, explains that in the composition of the ad hoc committee, "The Dean has the final word, presumably to ensure that no Department can pack the committee...
...distort their judgment. In this context it is curious to hear the associate provost of Harvard University downplay the reach and significance of his administrative position. It is odd to witness the director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions depreciate the importance of fundamental norms of fair process. And it is false and insulting for Prof. Thompson to suggest that asking Harvard to respect its own procedures and the worthy principles embodied in them presents an affront to him or his colleagues...