Tuesday, March 11, 2014

In the streets? No, in the gutter.

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I have reached a new level of disgust with regard to the international political activities of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization ...
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Time to undo the readmission penalty damage to safety net hospitals

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Over two years ago, I summarized a research paper from Karen E. Joynt and Ashish K. Jha at Brigham and Women's Hospital that suggested...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Will it be a whitewash?

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In five days, the president of the University of Illinois is due to receive the report from the Vice President for Research that will eva...
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Sunday, March 09, 2014

Let's spend time calling instead of coding

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Way back in 2008, my friend and colleague John Halamka wrote this post about the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes, the codes that a...
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Saturday, March 08, 2014

Three wrongs don't make a right, even for Deans

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An important comment was submitted on my post below , in which I argued that the service of the University of Illinois Dean of Medicine on ...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

Jubilee Project presents The Mixtapes

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The Jubilee Project continues to provide us all with heartwarming videos.  Check out this one .  Or watch it here:  
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Addressing Patient Wait Times with Systems Thinking

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MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series Addressing Patient Wait Times with Systems Thinking Ali Kamil, SDM '12, MIT SDM a...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Maybe they thought it was 267,153 kangaroos

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Federico Girosi , Associate Professor in Population Health at the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, posted the following ...

How not to do fund-raising

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I suppose it's not fair to pile on two years later, but I was taken aback when I recently came across this solicitation video produced...

A parent advises us to listen

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My regular readers know how impressed I am with the folks at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.  They are fully engaged in p...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

When a cancer center is not one

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I don't know who the author of this blog is, but s/he has a thoughtful view of the "business plans" that seem to characteri...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Robotic surgery: The Sequel?

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The first time was such a hit, why not do it again?  I refer, of course, to the marketing ploy used by Intuitive Surgical, Inc. when it i...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Huddling in New York City

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It's National Patient Safety Week, and I was honored to be invited to Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City to give a talk on ...
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My kind of town, Chicago is.

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For those of us in the rest of the country, Chicago has always set a certain standard when it comes to conflicts of interest, and why sho...

Lessons from the Aga Khan in Canada

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One of the world's great leaders is not the head of a national government. He is the leader of a religious faith.  The Aga Khan is th...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

In memoriam: Robert C. Moellering, Jr.

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This announcement arrived from Harvard Medical School: Dr. Robert C. Moellering, the HMS Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt Professor of Medi...
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Saturday, March 01, 2014

A matter of public trust

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Several weeks ago, I raised the issue of whether it was appropriate for the Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois ...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Hospital rankings: I wasn't cynical enough.

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Whenever I think I am too cynical about the business of health care, I learn something that makes me understand that I am not cynical enoug...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

They should have been given a Miranda warning

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Sometimes the exact words that people use to blame others serve as the most powerful indictment of their own ineptitude and culpability.  I...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

In Sickness As In Health

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I've just read an excellent book called I n Sickness As In Health: Helping couples cope with the complexities of illness , by Barbara...
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