Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Grand Rounds is up

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Terry offers a superb version of Grand Rounds this week at Counting Sheep . The topic is pain. In addition to excellent writing, her visua...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

Farewell to Rose

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Rose Finkelstein, age 101, passed away last night. She seemed to be an everlasting presence at our hospital, spending over 50 years in one c...
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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Dear Board Member:

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Apologies to those readers who are tired of the union topic, but there is something going on that deserves public attention. And, if you ar...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

White knight for Carney Hospital

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I have an idea, and I am going to offer it with all seriousness and with no sarcasm or animosity. In today's Boston Globe, Jeff Krasner ...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Bravo, Rafael

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A note from our chief of General Medicine about a member of his faculty: I write to share the wonderful news that Rafael Campo was just name...

Dear Congress, please read this

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An important article by Monique Doyle Spencer.
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Stretch your mind

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On to much less serious topics. On a flight to Washington on Monday, I was reading the US Airways magazine and saw an article on rubber band...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

How a CEO learns

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As you can tell from this blog and elsewhere , we are pursuing a very strong quality and safety agenda at BIDMC. Our progress to date has ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Grand Rounds Volume 4, Number 6

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Welcome to Grand Rounds, a traveling road show of commentary from a variety of bloggers on a variety of topics. I was honored to be asked to...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Inside Baseball

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Congratulations to the Red Sox for their ALDS, ALCS, and World Series victories and to their opponents -- Anaheim, Cleveland, and Colorado -...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

On Sidelines Parenting

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In previous posts, I have offered comments on refereeing and on coaching in the context of youth soccer. Today I wade into the delicate a...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Grand Rounds coming to this blog soon

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Nick Genes created the blogging version of Grand Rounds several years ago. He calls it "the weekly rotating carnival of the best of th...
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Senator Murray has it right

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Our good friends at Health Care for All were quick to jump on remarks made by State Senate President Terry Murray at the Greater Boston Ch...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Stranger in a strange land

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A note from Dr. Tom Delbanco, the founder of our Division of General Medicine and Primary Care. I received it late last night, but I held fo...
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Whew, I thought this was us

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I received this email, and I first thought it was a complaint about us. But no, it was about another hospital in town, and the writer was d...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Way to go, BID~Needham!

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Here's a note sent to Jeff Liebman, CEO of our affiliated community hospital in Needham -- a very small hospital with a great ED and a b...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Wanna help write my speech?

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I have been invited to give the Brunel Lecture at MIT tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon. This is a nice honor, but I am not so impressed with m...
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Geekdoctor arrives!

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I'd like to recommend a new blog , started by our indefatigable CIO, John Halamka. I am absolutely confident that people in the health ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Quick teamwork for one baby

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A year ago, I wrote about the really tiny babies in our neonatal intensive care unit. The NICU is a wonderful place, full of optimism. The...
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I could have told them that

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Our Dr. John Halmaka was just named CIO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council in their review of all companies and ...