Friday, November 30, 2007

Message from (or for) every Mom

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Jessica Lipnack features Anita Renfroe's "What Mom says" on Endless Knots . "What a mom says in 24 hours, condensed into...
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Scary spam

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I received the following comment on this blog: Ephedra Diet Pills Still Available I take the ephedra diet pill in the morning and again at n...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Lactards unite

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My daughter uses the term "lactard" for those of us in her family and friends who are lactose intolerant. I thought she invented i...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Orb has arrived

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A couple of weeks ago, our CIO John Halamka started a new feature on his blog about new devices and gizmos. The first one was about the Orb...
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Safety in the NICU

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Mark Graban at Lean Blog asked the following question as a comment to a posting below. It is interesting and important enough to repeat he...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Vroom!

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A friend invited me to opening night at the annual Auto Show in Boston, and I thought it would be a nice break from health care, so I went. ...

Grand Rounds is up

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Grand Rounds is up at Prudence, MD . Please check it out.
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Responses to Thanksgiving email

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As promised, I want to keep you up to date on responses to the staff email included in the post below . The email certainly struck a chord, ...
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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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