Feeling ill, Klein, who is a Crimson editor,went to health services and was told she had avirus. Her doctor at home diagnosed her withpneumonia a week later.

"[The staff at UHS] weren't particularly meanto me, they just failed to identify what was wrongwith me in a sort of major way," Klein says.

During Anderson's first year, after sufferingfrom stomach pains and throwing up after meals formonths, she became extremely dehydrated one nightand went to UHS at 3 a.m.

She was given I.V. fluids, but says the doctordid not seem alarmed by her condition.

"He told me it was a virus and not to worryabout it even though I'd been throwing up for thepast two months," Anderson says.

Her father, a gastroenterologist, knew that heraunt had had gallstones at her age and ordered anultrasound when she returned home for springbreak.

The exam showed gallstones and Anderson had hergallbladder removed that week.

While Klein and Anderson point to misdiagnosis,Rosenthal says doctors at UHS are comparable tothose at Harvard's world-renowned teachinghospitals.

"If you look at the face-book, you will seethat everybody is a Harvard doctor and has beentrained in Harvard hospitals," he says.

Seeking Further Treatment

Other students say while they were properlydiagnosed, they believe UHS did not provideadequate treatment.

Larry Malm '00 went to UHS one night last yearfollowing an eye injury. He had tripped on thestairs in Leverett House while carrying a plant.

Malm says he was given an eye patch andreturned the next day to see an ophthalmologist.He says the doctor told him he had scratched hiscornea, but that the injury would heal quickly andhe should return in four days.

A trip to the Mass. Eye and EarInfirmary--inspired by his roommates' "cynicism,skepticism and sarcasm" about UHS--confirmed thediagnosis but produced more aggressive treatment.Staff at the hospital told him swelling and thescratch's odd location complicated his condition.

"They had me on a whole regimen of drugs andUHS hadn't prescribed anything," Malm says.