Monday, January 12, 2009

Faces from Konkan

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Some people encountered during the bike ride mentioned below .
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The nuisance of stray dogs and cattle

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(I am taking a break from hospital-related stuff to catch up on personal activities during the Christmas-New Year break. I hope you enjoy th...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

A fan is born!

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Excerpts from a very sweet letter: Dear Paul, I have worked as a nurse at BIDMC for the past 4 and a half years. Due to some life circumsta...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

Sharp numbers

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I cut out an article last March from one of those free magazines you get while flying. This was on a flight from London in a magazine calle...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Freedom to Move

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My friend Brian Hughes is one of those creative entrepreneurs . His current project is to sell modification kits to Segways that make them ...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Just checking in on your Rx

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An idea I heard somewhere: A week after a prescription is ordered, an automatic email goes from the doctor to the patient saying: "It h...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Better than buying ads

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I meant to cite this article about the use of social media in health care settings several weeks ago. It's main focus is marketing, bu...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

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Taking a blogging break through New Year's, plus a little more. You are welcome to submit comments, but there may be a delay in moderati...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

What if?

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Just thinking, along the lines of a New Year's resolution. What if all of the hospitals in the Boston metropolitan area -- academic med...
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"Shehekeyanu" meets "Woo pig sooie!"

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We bought this menorah many years ago from the artist, Katya Apekina, who had just arrived from Russia. She was still pretty unknown. Sinc...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Thanks again, Grant

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Lots of milestones today. Here's one about soccer. Each year, registered soccer referees have to take a recertification class. At the se...
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Post #1001

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Hard to believe, but since starting this blog in August of 2006 , I have written 1000 posts, making this #1001. For those who have been the...
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"someone may just end up dead"

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A blogger named Bongi from South Africa gives a sense of what it feels like to be a surgeon. For those of us who are not, this is an impor...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

Medgadget Best Blogs

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Many thanks to those who have nominated this blog for "best" categories of medical blogs at Medgadget , best medical weblog and be...
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"Carefully tend to those kinds of moments"

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There is a weekly segment on NPR called “Story Corps”. Today’s recording made me think of what great people work in hospitals.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Load 'em up! Move 'em out!

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As promised below , more pictures and narrative from Bruce Wahl showing the truck loading for our Holiday Lights gift program: " Here ...
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Day 7

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Update from my stormed-in brother-in-law in Worcester: Home again and fridge is clean. See there are some benefits to no elec for a week. ...

A Spear right on target

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Steven Spear writes in response to an op-ed article in the New York Times. Simple and clear and clearly correct. Excerpts: Jonathan Gruber ...
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Caller-outer award of the month

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A key part of BIDMC SPIRIT is the idea that everybody in the organization is encouraged to call out problems they see in the workplace, pro...
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Spreading the story of discovery

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Several weeks ago , I told you the story of how we had improved the process for getting GI specimens to the laboratory for analysis. But pa...
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