Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Grand Rounds is up
Barbara Olson published a great version of Medical Grand Rounds here. Please check it out.
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This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching.
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Paul, I used to be a fan of your blog when you first started it. I feel though that is has become way too diluted with posts about topics of personal interest and too promotional of BIDMC. I would really like you to refocus on your original intent and go back to your early posts. "This is a blog started by a CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues." We don't need to hear about how you listen to the Red Sox games.
Sorry, David, I like to mix up the topics. I've always had items of personal interest and expect to keep doing so.
The topics about BIDMC are mainly not promotional -- although of course some are. They are an attempt to share interesting stuff going on here with other hospital folks and the general public. I get lots of comments from people around the world that this has been interesting and helpful to them.
Paul,
I am not sure you are committed to improving health care coverage. I know you are committed to the improvement of delivery of health care services, but I am not sure you understand the difference.
What is your take on this?
By the way your blog is the bomb!
I don't know where you get that idea. I have said below that improving access is job one. I have been urging people to be more honest about its cost and dealing with it directly, rather than trying to reduce Medicare appropriations to providers. http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2009/06/steps-towards-universal-health-coverage.html
So how do you have that other perception of my views? Can you cite something I said? I'm really curious.
And thanks about the blog . . . .
Of course it's Paul's blog and he can use it as he sees fit. I, for one, would be interested in hearing more stories about the challenges of actually "running" a hospital. As a hospital-based doc, I always wondered what the adminstrators did all day.... (:)
nonlocal
Ah, but the title of the blog is actually a self-referential joke, because no one actually runs a hospital. As someone once said, being CEO of a hospital is more like being mayor of a city than being president of a regular company.
I'm not sure the day-to-day stuff about meetings and such would be very interesting, but I'll try. Check in tomorrow for a start.
If anyone could make that interesting, you could! (:
Re running, I agree; I always thought of Johns Hopkins as a city while I was there and that was 35 years ago. However, you named the blog. (: Looking forward to tomorrow.
nonlocal
Sorry, changed my mind. There are more interesting and important topics for the time being.
Paul, I just feel that its important to have a very specific focus with a forum such as this. You are in a very unique position in that you have an opportunity to call for change and reform in health care, and people will listen.
I guess I'm just disappointed to see the blog going in many different directions and having to sift through many different posts to find something of real value.
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