tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post7445880857282599799..comments2024-03-29T06:37:18.029-04:00Comments on Not Running a Hospital: Patients band together to save a homePaul Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-75853407561303953262009-05-03T07:59:00.000-04:002009-05-03T07:59:00.000-04:00Please send me an email at plevy [at] bidmc [dot] ...Please send me an email at plevy [at] bidmc [dot] harvard [dot] edu.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-90512537797304291442009-05-02T17:56:00.000-04:002009-05-02T17:56:00.000-04:00Sorry for the off-topic.
Mr. Levi,
being inspired...Sorry for the off-topic.<br /><br />Mr. Levi,<br />being inspired by your blog and your interviews found on YouTube, I would really appreciate to hear your opinion regarding building a career in Healthcare for a person with no medical background.<br /><br />With 6 years experience in management consulting and 4 years of managerial experience in Telecom both in Russia, I’m on my way to shifting my career to Healthcare and I’m planning to move to US. My aspiration is HC consulting and Hospital management.<br /><br />Currently I’m considering options of getting a part-time MBA in HC in order to obtain knowledge in both HC and US specific. With part-time and HC criteria, only a Baruch college (www.healthcaremba.org) and Boston University (http://management.bu.edu/gpo/parttime/hsm/index.html) seem to be feasible.<br /><br />What would be your recommendations? What schools and jobs can be a best start for me?<br /><br />Thank you very much in advance.<br />NataliaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01436600634830286597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-57122576369672827002009-05-02T09:34:00.000-04:002009-05-02T09:34:00.000-04:00This cyberspace phenomenon is interesting and perh...This cyberspace phenomenon is interesting and perhaps revolutionary. I have seen it in other venues, such as when the town of Buffalo told a gardener she had to convert her front yard garden to lawn. It was posted on a gardening blog, and the town was deluged with thousands of complaints; subsequently backing off (while becoming environmentally educated as well.) Maybe it's a sort of modern replacement for being put in the stocks in the public square when you misbehaved.<br />At any rate, bless the good samaritans, and I hope this patient responds as well to the IL-2 as e-patient Dave did!<br /><br />nonlocalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-27681172261478905942009-05-02T09:31:00.000-04:002009-05-02T09:31:00.000-04:00Awesome. Thanks for posting the story, Paul.
This...Awesome. Thanks for posting the story, Paul.<br /><br />This is another inspiring example of what patient communities do for each other. In this case it was the [KIDNEY-ONC] listserv on ACOR.org.<br /><br />Paul didn't say so, but this happens to be a patient at BIDMC, on the same unit where I got my treatment. I visited him a few weeks ago. He's been reacting (ahem) spectacularly to the Interleukin treatment that I too received, and that's a good sign.<br /><br />When I was being treated two years ago, the housing slowdown had just started, and my previous house was sitting on the market, eventually for 17 months, spanning my case from diagnosis to "all done." That house was headed into foreclosure but my friends and family put on a fundraiser and came up with $18,000 so we could accept the only offer we'd gotten, which was less than we owed on it.<br /><br />It's amazing what people will do to help each other. Angelo's uproar shows that, my story shows that, and the "let's do a Beth Israel" story shows that.<br /><br />Like Angelo, I believe in people.e-Patient Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11608258246509102466noreply@blogger.com