Monday, November 26, 2007

Jobs, jobs, jobs

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To provide more of a context for the theme below about the work environment in our hospital, I offer some statistics about jobs at BIDMC. I...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

More Thanksgiving thoughts

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This post is prompted by the following note from one of our chiefs to his staff: You can't fail to hear from most everyone that Thanksgi...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving!

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I hope yours was great! (Dessert by Sarah.)
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I can't hold a Kindle to this one

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OK, time for a consumer survey. What do you think of the Kindle, the wireless electronic book that will be available from Amazon on Novembe...
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Grand Rounds from Mexico

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Grand Rounds is up at Mexico Medical Student this week. ¡Muy bien hecho, Enrico!
Monday, November 19, 2007

"Don't worry about it"

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I have written before about hand hygiene and the inexplicable difficulty of getting people who are trained in medicine to be attentive to t...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Great Scott! Deep blogging!

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I shared a panel last week with David Meerman Scott, who has written a wonderful book (best seller) called The New Rules of Marketing and P...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Babson scores big! Welcome back, Len!

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Babson College has scored a major coup in securing Len Schlesinger to be its new president. Len has superb business credentials, but he is...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Spam I am

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Please read this post by John Halamka about fighting spam in the hospital. Here's a tidbit to get you to read more: At BIDMC, we recei...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Reply from one of our doctors

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People often ask me how our doctors feel about the things I post on this blog. The answer, of course, is as varied as our faculty, and -- t...
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A letter of appreciation

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This is one of those really heartwarming letters I receive. I know some of you might think it is just self-congratulatory pap when I post t...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

In memoriam: Sarah Wernick

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I was saddened to read an obituary this morning about Sarah Wernick , a wonderful, intelligent, and funny person who was best known for writ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Dutch Treat

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I just returned from a quick trip to Amsterdam where I was invited to speak at a session called "Health Care Innovation Event", a ...
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Grand Rounds is up.

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Grand Rounds is up on Dr. Anonymous this week. Please check it out.
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Patient in my own hospital

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Two stories about being a patient in my own hospital. (1) I am really lucky to have a primary care doctor who knows how to protect me, as pr...
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Diagnostic skills

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A friend who is a primary care doctor once told me that 85% of the symptoms that he sees in patients don't matter. They will simply go ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Where does that money go, anyway?

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Several months ago, I related the sad story that resulted from the merger of the New England Deaconess and Beth Israel Hospitals in the mid...
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Friday, November 09, 2007

Equal time

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I don't want the post below to be the cause of sibling rivalry, so here is the Boston Globe announcement of my other daughter's dan...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

The birth of a winemaker

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To share the adventures of a young winemaker, please visit this site by my daughter Syrah or Petite S'ra (formerly known as Sarah). I r...
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Partnership for Healthcare Excellence

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Speaking of consumer health care information (see below), the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence has started an ad campaign and a website...
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