Re: Wayne st. in disarray?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sat Oct 27 07:30:18 2007
Anyone know the Paul Harvey "Rest of the Story?"
Art
At Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Dean Huffman . wrote:
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>Wayne st. in disarray?
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>October 23, 2007
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>By PATRICIA ANSTETT
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>FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER
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>Wayne State University’s nationally renowned obstetrics and gynecology
>department is in turmoil after the departure of its chairman and the
>resignations Monday of six physicians.
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>They are the latest in what many expect to be a wave of changes ahead at the
>medical school, the largest in the United States on a single campus.
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>The latest exodus in the department -- which historically has been rocked by
>controversy and resignations, even while gaining top national grants and awards
>-- started with the departure two weeks ago of Dr. John Malone, Jr., chairman of
>the obstetrics and gynecology department for eight years.
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>Malone said Tuesday he was “relieved” of his duties because of a “difference of
>opinion” with WSU medical school dean, Dr. Robert Mentzer, Jr.
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>Then Monday, the six other physicians resigned. They are Susan Hendrix and her
>husband, Gene McNeeley, Jr.; Dave Kmak, director of the OB/GYN residency
>program; Renee Page, Lori Billis and Diane Vista-Deck. The main number for the
>doctors was disconnected on Tuesday and none could be reached for comment.
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>In a brief statement to the Free Press, Mentzer said the department “is
>currently in the process of transition, which includes the recruitment of new
>faculty and the departure of others."
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>The changes come at a time when Hutzel Women’s Hospital, a Detroit Medical
>Center facility staffed by WSU doctors, is seeing a big upsurge in patients
>once served at the now closed obstetrics department of St. John Detroit
>Riverview Hospital.
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>Contact PATRICIA ANSTETT at 313-222-5021 or panstett@freepress.com.
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art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
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