Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Summer Report to the BIDMC Staff

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Regular readers know that I believe in administrative, as well as clinical, transparency in our hospital. I have trouble understanding why ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Please come clean on the public health plan

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A few days ago , I wrote about the inconsistencies in the President's and Congressional descriptions of a public health insurance plan a...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Scene from Fair Oaks

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This picture was just too cute not to post it, to carry you through the weekend. Here is the explanation from the mother about her son's...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

In memoriam: Don Lowry

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Robert D. "Don" Lowry, former CEO of the New England Deaconess Hospital, passed away peacefully at his home in Chelsea late Monday...
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Interns Learn Lean -- They get it in two days!

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With medical education focused so heavily on the cause of disease, diagnoses, and therapies, an area that is usually neglected relates to th...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Dear Governor Patrick

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A short excerpt from a more extensive letter to Governor Deval Patrick from the President of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. The id...

Fun while getting fitted

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Fit testing is required at BIDMC and other hospitals to help insure that health care workers who could be exposed to airborne infection h...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Grand Rounds is up

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Barbara Olson published a great version of Medical Grand Rounds here . Please check it out.
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Front row syndrome

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Here is a picture of our entering class of residents at their orientation session. What, you don't see anybody? Well, it is because th...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Pig -- Part 1

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One of the lessons of Lean is that if you standardize work, you not only reduce variation, but you improve the quality of the product or se...
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Pig -- Part 2

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Welcome from round 1 of the pig game .  Now we turn to round 2. This time, hand out the instructions above, along with another copy of t...
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Pig -- Part 3

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Turning from round 2 , we go finally to round three of the pig game. Hand out this set of instructions, along with another grid. Now, co...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Quality and Cost Council annual meeting

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IHI's Jim Conway asked me to post this announcement: The Commonwealth of MA Health Care Quality and Cost Council will be holding its Ann...
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Tufts Summer Institute course

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Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine asks me to post the following announcement: Enro...

What a public plan is really for

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The current Washington debate about creating a public health plan has a lot of fuzzy arguments. I think everybody can agree that a governm...
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Do we really spend too much for health care?

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Not according to this analysis, led to us by Greg Mankiw's blog . A less serious view, here (with thanks to Nurse Ausmed for the remind...
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Take a nap, we'll be there soon

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Happy Father's Day! (Would like to credit the artist for this, but I can find no record of his or her name. Anyone know?)
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

David, we hardly knew ya!

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Michelangelo's David has been on loan in US museums, in an exhibit sponsored by America's fast food restaurants.
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Wise thoughts for the times

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Wise thoughts for the times from the Aga Khan : We know from recent headlines about scoundrels from the American financial scene to the hall...
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I told you so

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I don't claim to know much about medicine, still being relatively new to the field, but I do understand public policy and politics prett...
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