Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Signs of spring in the neighborhood

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From this past weekend: The stream on the Glacial Hill trail at the Mass. Audubon Sanctuary in Natick was no longer frozen over, so you had...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

On the air with Dan Rea at WBZ

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I just returned from an hour-long radio show with Dan Rea, host of a talk radio program called Night Side on WBZ radio here in Boston. The...

Good progress in budget deliberations

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Here's a message I sent out to the staff last night. It is a follow-up from town meetings and the previous budget message . Dear BIDM...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

New Joint Commission blogger

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Jim Parker, Senior Editor and Publisher at the Joint Commission, has started a new blog called Perspectives on Patient Safety. The focus of...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

The adverse selection problem

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A Boston Globe editoria l today supports a point I made a few days ago about the conflicting objectives the president and Congress will fac...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Pay it forward

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While many of you have submitted comments on this topic, I have avoided posting anything about a recent Boston Globe article written by Kev...
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In the trenches

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With all the talk about the bad economy, a little humor sometimes is helpful. One of our chiefs sent the attached as a type of advice and wa...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Thanks to Jackson Memorial

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I’ve just returned from giving a lecture at a management training session at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. Jackson is a larg...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Maybe two out of three?

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I heard President Obama speak several days ago about his plans for health care legislation. As I recall, he said he was hoping for three th...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Please check with mom before writing

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As noted below , we are holding town meetings with our staff to get ideas on how to narrow our budget gap. Several hundred people have atte...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

The backyard on a moonlit snowy night

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Diabetes design contest

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One of my blogging heroines, Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine , writes and asks for help publicizing the following contest: Hi Paul, This week...
Saturday, March 07, 2009

Town meetings @ BIDMC

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Looking at these smiling people, you would never think that the topic of the day was possible layoffs, reduction of employee benefits, and o...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Wannabe and Wallaby on Greater Boston

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I appeared on the local PBS television station last night on Emily Rooney's Greater Boston show to discuss the memo below . I was prece...
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Update on the economy and its effect on BIDMC

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Back in November , I wrote to our staff with an explanation of what the economic trends might mean for our hospital. Yesterday, I sent out a...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Honoring Dr. Douglas Pleskow

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About ten years ago, two women with pancreatic disease happened to meet, discussed the lack of scientific knowledge about their disease, and...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

He iti rā, he iti māpihi pounamu

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A reader from New Zealand writes to inform me of the second annual report by the New Zealand health service on serious and sentinel events i...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

PPE is not for me

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Back in December, I announced a new focus of our BIDMC SPIRIT program, one directed to solving the problem of employee injuries. I had not...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Strength of a woman

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A note from Dr. Hope Ricciotti, our residency program director in obstetrics and gynecology: Our extraordinary OB/GYN Chief Resident Jennife...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Congratulations, Dr. Gottlieb

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Congratulations to Dr. Gary Gottlieb on his appointment as the next CEO of Partners HealthCare System, the largest health care delivery sys...
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