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SLlET-EDiipj STATE B2 The Arizona Republic Sunday, June 5, 1988 BEST AVAILABLE COPY Police given new tactics for defensive driving Niew UA dean of medicine piiB emphasis on quality If VtJ ft I By DeeRales' Southernri2Bureau TUCSON Quality is the prime directivt ofjthf new dean of medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. JJimea says the college must offcij quality research and patient care -a its medical center in order tfl offervquaiity teaching. And he's determined that the quality of its students remain high as well, even at a time wrfen'fewer people nationally are seeking admission to medical schools. Dalen, 55, arrived in Tucson in early May from his previous job as chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester.

Yet he already is looking at ways to develop "even closer ties with the excellent medical institutions in Phoenix in certain postgraduate and residency programs." "I plan to meet soon with the medical directors (of Phoenix hospitals) to see how we can further our relationships," said Dalen, a However, he said he is pleased that the trend has not been felt greatly at the UA. He explained that although applications at the university were down this year to 220, from 300, there currently is no decline in the quality of students. "We will continue to take 88 students. If we don't have 88 first-class students, then we will take fewer," he said. "We will not lower our standards." Dalen said his administrative duties as dean will not isolate him from students or patients.

"I intend to do some teaching and see some patients," he said, explaining that he came from an environment in Massachusetts that is "more bureaucratic" than in the West. Dalen, whose yearly salary will be $200,000, replaces Dr. Louis Kettel, who resigned in December after serving as dean of Arizona's only medical school for 10 years. Kettel is now on the administrative staff of the National Association of Medical Schools in Washington, D.C. Although Dalen sees training doctors as the priority of a medical school, he said teaching cannot exist in a vacuum.

"Teaching medical students is a different kind of mission," he said. "In order to teach, we have to treat patients, and we can't possibly teach doctors unless patient care is of the very highest order. "So patient care then becomes just as important as teaching. Then, the only way that you can be the best at patient care and the best teacher is through research, because you must question everything you do." The research, Dalen said, provides the evidence that the treatment that is being taught and delivered is right. "At a medical center, you either are good at all three (teaching, patient care and research) or you fail," he said.

Dalen acknowledges that medical schools nationwide are experiencing a decline in applicants. He believes part of the reason is that "there are many other options." During the past five years, the department has refined training, and many basic-driving techniques taught to recruits now are considered inferior, and sometimes dangerous. For instance, the department formerly taught officers to grip a steering wheel with their left hand at the 10 o'clock position and with their right hand at 2 o'clock, Heuett said. But national tests have proven that this grip restricts a driver's ability to turn the wheel 360 degrees, Heuett said, and that grasping the wheel at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions results in far superior maneuverability. Officers once were taught to cut corners during pursuits, Heuett said, but now they are taught to fight human nature by slowing down and taking wide turns.

By taking a wide, deep turn, the driver places his car in position to enter a straightaway more rapidly than if he had cut the corner and allowed the patrol car to fishtail, Heuett said. Before the course begins, he said, the veterans often think they know everything about driving. But their resistance quickly collapses after the course begins, he said. "We're not out here to make fun of him," Heuett said. "We're out here to teach him some skills to save his life.

"If we save one life, we've done our job." POLICE, from page Bl lived, if they had been trained to steer around obstacles rather than to brake at high speeds, thereby sliding into accidents, Tryon said. A refresher course in the latest safe-driving techniques will be given to 1,600 of Phoenix's 1,800 officers beginning in October, he said. The only officers who will be exempted from the eight-hour "tactical driving" course, Hynes said, are those who normally do not drive on duty. Ruth said his agency is working to add driving to the list of "proficiency skills," along with using firearms and handling a nightstick, in which officers must receive training every three years to remain certified as Arizona peace officers. "We've recognized the problem, and now we're finally doing something about it," said Tryon, who helped design the track and played a key role in developing the program.

During an eight-month period, 120 motorcycle officers and 1,480 officers who drive patrol cars will take the refresher course. All of the officers received some form of basic driver training when they joined the department, Hynes said, but only about one in 10 has received the sophisticated training available for the past three years. Dr. James Dalen Is determined that the quality of UA medical students remain high. Dalen received his medical degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts faculty in 1975, he was on the medical staff of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and on the medical faculty of Harvard Medical School, also in the Boston area. He is editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the country's largest medical journals. Dalen hails health-maintenance organizations for making doctors "realize that the biggest cost of medical care is hospitalization" and forcing them to seek ways of treating illnesses with fewer hospital days. Hit-run rumor on publisher denied Corpstein, according to The Tri bune, says in a deposition in the libel suit that he heard about the case from McGowan in the early 1980s. In his own deposition, McGowan says he had heard of the case but did not IT jT7-.

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McGowan told Fotinos he had heard that Murphy and then-Republic columnist Paul Dean, now a Los Angeles Times reporter, had been leaving a party in the Encanto district and had been involved in a fatal hit-run, Fotinos said. "He just mentioned it," Fotinos said. "We were talking about all kinds of things. He didn't have any specifics. It was a rumor, and he was the only source I had." McGowan was unavailable for comment Saturday.

Fotinos passed the information along to his longtime friend Ysasi, who then was working as an investigator for the medical examiner. Ysasi then looked through records of traffic fatalities and found one, the Faber hit-run, that seemed to fit the information McGowan had provided, Fotinos said. Contrary to what Ysasi says in his affidavit, Fotinos said, he never told anyone that he knew Murphy was the driver of the hit-and-run car, only that he had heard a rumor to that effect. In a story published Saturday in the The Mesa Heuisler is quoted as saying he was asked to investigate the Faber case by Sen. Pete Corpstein, R-Paradise Valley.

Just fill out this coupon and send it to: Valley National Bank, Newcomer Serv- talk a friend into moving here. months ago but has not been been asked to give a deposition in the libel case. Murphy said that since 1980, the rumor of his involvement in the Faber incident has been investigated by the Maricopa County attorney's office, the state attorney general, the Phoenix police and by newspaper reporters. He said he voluntarily went to the office of the Phoenix police chief in 1980 and was interviewed about the matter by a detective. "Time and again, every official investigation and every exhaustive investigation by news reporters working on tips resulted in the same conclusion that there was no reason to believe nor any evidence that I could possibly have been involved," Murphy said.

When the rumor last surfaced, in early 1987, a Republic reporter discussed the matter with a Phoenix police spokesman. The spokesman said that Murphy's possible involvement in the Faber fatality was probed but that so little information was developed that no reference to Murphy was ever made in the case file. your name Iricndfcruunc address address sure zip suite zip business phone home phone phone best time to call HIT-RUN, from page Bl detective and former investigator for the Maricopa County medical examiner, i Ysasi submitted the sworn affidavit. "This is one of the most frequently and thoroughly investigated smears in Arizona history," Murphy said. Heuisler alleges in his suit, filed last fall, that Murphy libeled him in columns that referred to Heuisler's criminal background at a time when Heuisler was being considered as an investigator for then-Gov.

Evan Mecham withdrew the appointment last year after media reports about Heuisler's criminal record. Ysasi says in the affidavit that he got information in 1980 from the reliable source that Murphy was driving the automobile that killed 64-yer-old Viola Faber at about 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 7, 1975. Faber was killed while crossing Seventh Avenue at Flower in front of her apartment complex.

Witnesses interviewed by police at the time said the driver of the car was alone One witness described him as in his late 50s, "meek looking," with light 'or gray hair. Another said he was a young white man, perhaps 20 years, old, with a fair complexion and medium-length blond hair. At the time, Murphy was 46 years old arid had dark hair. In the affidavit, Ysasi said he relayed his information about Murphy to Phoenix police. Ysasi's source for the information about Murphy is not identified in the libel suit.

However, Steve Fotinos, who is claims-program manager for risk management for the Arizona Department of Administration, has told The Republic he was Ysasi's source. Ysasi could not be reached Saturday for comment. Fotinos contacted The Republic in 1987 after a Wall Street Journal reporter told him he had been tipped ab(out the accident by Heuisler. Fdtinos'safd his involvement in the case began in 1980, when Murphy was editor of The Republic's editorial page and Fotinos was working as a private investigator. One day, he said, he was Offer limited ID one "Experience Arizona" coupon book per person VNB Branch: Please fcrward to Newcomer Services- P420.

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