Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Great progress to the west

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OK, so not really that far west, but in Northampton, MA, at Cooley Dickinson Hospital . The press release follows. Congratulations to the ...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Tipping point?

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One of the nation's most thoughtful and foremost patient advocates, noticing that I had perfected the challenges of Twitter , wrote me a...
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Follow me @Paulflevy

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When you have an addictive personality (any doubts, check my blogging record here), you have to be careful what you start. I figured, though...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

"The most important part of my job"

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I know I have overloaded you a bit with end-of-life issues, but I want to share two articles on the subject. The first is a very nice post b...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thanks for engaging gracefully

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I want to thank the many people out there who participated in our Thanksgiving weekend blog rally in support of Engage with Grace. When the...
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First signs of ice

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Photos from weekend wanderings at the MA Audubon Society's Broadmoor Sanctuary . Just the thinnest layer of ice.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Engage with Grace

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Several dozen bloggers in the health care field and beyond are engaged today and through the Thanksgiving weekend in a blog rally*, simultan...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

The ad I would buy

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I was joking with a friend the other day that the Boston Globe Spotlight team (their investigative group) has managed to become a profit cen...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Laboring in Washington

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(1) The Obama team continues to pull in very able people for the new Administration. One announced last week is Patrick Gaspard, executive ...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

"Araña" means "spider"

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Small world category: While refereeing a boys soccer game recently, I started to talk with the coach and inquired where he was from, and he...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Uncle!

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Many months ago , I wrote about the da Vinci Robot Surgical System and expressed doubts about whether there was evidence to support the clin...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Farr better

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Another wonderful application of Lean process improvements on one of our floors, done in conjunction with our BIDMC SPIRIT program. A seemi...
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Even the meal tray

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As far as I'm concerned, you can take all those posted quality metrics and throw them out the window when you get a letter like this one...
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Follow-up from Sunday

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Once again, for my out-of-town readers, a link to today's Boston Globe story following up on the one published on Sunday .
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

More from Chicago

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Here are some pictures of attendees at the Joint Commission event mentioned below . I think these folks are from Indiana, Wisconsin, New Yo...
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At the Joint Commission

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I'm currently in Chicago, having been invited to speak at the Joint Commission's annual conference on quality and safety, "Safe...
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Seasonal trauma

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News to me. Our chief of surgery notes an interesting "blip" in a certain kind of accidents during this fall season: Broken feet...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Time to brag a little

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Excerpts from BIDMC and Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA press releases today. (More available here .) BIDMC TOPS BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD MASSAC...
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And some more union spending

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Speaking of union spending , there apparently will be a TV campaign for the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" (the one that wou...
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SEIU goes Googling

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It is impressive and instructive to note the many ways the SEIU has chosen to spend money on advertising about BIDMC. I mentioned before t...
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