Friday, December 29, 2006

Happy New Year

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Best wishes to all for a Happy New Year. My New Year's resolution is to take another week off from writing this blog. After five months ...
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Friday, December 22, 2006

Merry Christmas

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A note from Linda Myers, who runs Windows of Hope , our oncology support shop: Windows of Hope just received a wonderful donation of handmad...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

First, kill as few patients as possible

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That was the name of a humorous book by Oscar London, but there is a serious side to the concept: For years, Don Berwick and his colleagues...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The SEC is on the phone

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Report today on one of those Blackberry sites : Slide for RIM stock Here's yesterday's numbers for BlackBerry-maker Research In Moti...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Blackberry Cold Turkey

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The most important attribute of email is the asynchronicity of the medium: The sender and the receiver do not have to be in contact at the s...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

What Works -- Part 4 -- Central Line Infections

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Central line-related bloodstream infections are a serious problem in hospitals. A central line is a port installed directly into a major blo...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

A holiday gift

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I am posting an email sent by one of our doctors to his colleagues in our Ob/Gyn department this past week. (He said it would be all right....
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Western style sex and humor?

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Here is a story from MSNBC about a restaurant in Arizona with waitresses dressed up as scantily clad nurses. One of our nurses mentioned it...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

Hip Fractures

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This past weekend, the Boston Globe began running a three-part series examining the impact of hip fractures on the lives of elderly patients...
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The Real Beth Israel

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Please be sure to read the second comment under my posting "All are above average," below.
Saturday, December 09, 2006

More Links

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I have added links to two other health care blogs (on the right), one called Kevin M.D. and the other called Med Chatter . There are a gazil...
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Friday, December 08, 2006

All are above average

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BIDMC doctors and nurses help women deliver 5000 babies per year. I like to joke with parents that all of our babies are above average and t...
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Welcome to the Club, John

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The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , one of the nation's preeminent research and clinical centers in that field, has designated a n...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

What Works -- Part 3 -- New GI Therapy

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A number of people suffer from GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), aka acid reflux from the stomach that rises into the esophagus and cr...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

A modest proposal

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Yesterday, I learned of a program being run by Aetna that prompted me to think differently about the medical records issue. While there is a...
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Cardiac Results

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The state of Massachusetts announced yesterday that it is going to publish mortality rates, by individual heart surgeons, on a public webist...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006

When is death?

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A story in today's Globe about a current case at our hospital provides a thoughtful and balanced description of the legal, moral, and s...
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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Doctors, researchers, med students: Check this site

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Here's a relatively new site called Healtheva , which is a kind of Myspace for physicians, researchers, residents, interns, and medical ...
Friday, December 01, 2006

December 1 and Prepping for the PMC!

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I just returned from a 20-mile bike ride starting at 4am in balmy 63 degree (!!) New England weather. Who would have thought that I could be...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Please help me answer this

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A law student from Wyoming has written and asked me a couple of questions. Before I write my answer to this young man, I thought I would as...
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