European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday february 9,1986 lady Liberty shows off new look scaffolding has been removed from the of Uberty Ellis Island foundation said the statue of Liberty s body ind renovations scope of be restorations has increased the Are expected to be finished in Lime for a requirement to a total of $265 minion to fourth of july Celebration. Chrysler corp. Complete the so far $233 million chairman let Iacocca head of the statue has been raised. Doctors in mass told to handle emergency cases Boston Dpi state official warned doctors not to withhold emergency treatment despite a work slowdown that has forced growing numbers of patients into City hospitals not affected by the protests Over rising malpractice rates. As the slowdown by up to 600 easter Massachusetts doctors entered its second week Friday the state s medical registration Board told doctors state Laws require them to give emergency treatment or face the possible loss of their licenses. The Board wants to remind patients an physicians that physicians even when they Are motivated by sincere feelings of frustration about the malpractice crisis do no have a right to withhold treatment in Emer gency situations said or. Russell j. Row Ell the Board s Don t have to remind me of that said or. Barry Dorn a Winchester Ort Hope Dic surgeon. I am Well aware of that and i take my patients care very Board urged patients who believe they have a valid complaint to Contact it disciplinary unit. Shortly after the announcement was re leased 12 surgeons at Norwood Hospital 10 Miles Southwest of Boston abandoned their protest citing fruitful discussions with state legislators on easing the malpractice physicians Are now convinced that the legislature and the governor Are committed to timely legislative Resolution of these malpractice issues said Norwood Hospital spokeswoman Sandra Landsman. The physicians Are prepared to let the legislature operate in anon crisis environment still the doctors said if the problem is no resolved by april is 15 Days before new Premium increases arc slated to go into effect they will permanently change their prac timing patterns to less risky at the Hospital were still refusing to take new pregnancies and More physicians elsewhere threatened to join the slowdown next week if no action is taken tout premiums or let doctors pass costs on to their least 21 patients suffering from Bro Ken Bones had been transferred by ambulance As of Friday from struggling local hospitals to four Boston teaching Hospital where doctors were not taking part in he slowdown which started feb. spokesmen said an even greater number of pregnant women were turned physicians threatened to join the slowdown next week if no action is taken tout premiums or let doctors Transfer costs to their doctors Are fuming Over an average 62 percent hike in malpractice Premium effective april 30 and a state ruling that made the increase retroactive to 1983 be cause of escalating claims and jury awards. Many physicians in High risk categories like Ortho Puiu obstetrics say their yearly insurance Bills will amount to be tween $40,000 and $60,000. Teaching hospitals pay malpractice premiums for staff doctors who Are not involved in the protest. Although gov. Michael s. Dukakis and democratic legislative leaders promised to enact a legislative solution by april 30, spokesmen at affected hospitals said the situation was growing increasingly serious. We re taking it very seriously said Allan Desrosiers a spokesman for Anna Jaques Hospital in Massachusetts Hospital association which has been urging the doctors to aban Don the protest has scheduled an emergency meeting next week to outline its legislative package aimed at easing the financial obstetrician blow police Hope time will Tell in shift Experiment new York a Philadelphia to the regular schedule introduced in sizes itself to the Earth s Day night Cycle. It let the body Settle into each shift he sail lice officials Hope their officers will perform better and feel better doing it under a experimental schedule that tries to mesh working hours with body 270 officers and detectives were to begin working new hours this week under the experimental schedule which will be extended to the whole department if Al goes Well. In the demonstration project. Is successful and is introduced citywide i think it May have a major Impact on work sched Ules for police All Over the United states said Del Charles Czeisler director of the Boston based Center for design of Industrial schedules which formulated the new timetable. Czeisler said it is the first attempt he knows of to schedule a . Police Force based on circadian principles which Deal with the daily rhythms of the body. Louis Campione of the fraternal order of police Lodge no. S in Philadelphia which had asked Czeisler s organization for help in scheduling said he thinks the new timetable is going to do a lot hopefully to improve the physical Well being of our peo said Philadelphia s traditional schedule which Czeisler said follows common pattern caused officers to com Plain they were constantly tired with frequent colds we believe. That this kind of sched ule causes a great Deal of illness fatigue decrease in life expectancy and generally disrupts the process for Good health Campione said. Th1957, has eight hour shifts starting at mid night 8 . And 4 . An employee works one shift six Days takes two Days off then changes to the next earlier new schedule Calls for 8w-hour shifts beginning at 11 ., 7 . And 3 . The employee will stay on the same shift for 18 Days working three cycles of four Days on and two Days off. Then he will change to the next later , director of the Neur endocrine Laboratory at Harvard s Brigham an women s Hospital said the body s rhythms Are governed by a tiny Cluster of nerve cell sat the base of the brain. It controls daily cycles in such areas As sleep hormone re lease alertness and Short term memory he said. This biological clock normally synchro Best Sellers Nize t Cycle can adapt to other schedules but it can reset itself by Only about an hour or two per Day and adapts More easily to a later sch cd ule not an earlier one Czeisler Aid. When a worker moves to a shift eight hours earlier the change overwhelms the clock he said. Until the body has adjusted the worker tries to function while his brain tells him to sleep and tries to sleep while the brain tells him to be awake Czeisler said. The stress of adjusting can bring health problems including digestive disorders and increased heart attack risk he said. In addition weekly shift changes mean the body barely gets a Chance to adjust to the new shift when it s Lime to Chang again Czeisler said. With Philadelphia s experimental sched ule keeping the same shift for 18 Days will let Settle int each shift the shift change is made the clock Wise rotation each time to a later shift not an earlier one will be easier Tor the body to handle. Reducing the number of consecutive workdays also will help the workers adjust to schedule changes he said. Police inspector Frank Chinze said about190 officers and 80 detectives Are trying the new schedule the Experiment is scheduled to run nine months and then be evaluated he Laid. If the department approves the City t 7,000police officers will then be Able to vote of extending the schedule citywide he Laid. I m excited about it said Heinze reworked shifts for 14 Yean he said and it i hard on compiled by the new York times fiction 1-the Mammoth Hunters by Jimh m. 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