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Sidney Borum auction reminder by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As you start thinking about holiday shopping after Thanksgiving, please give some thought to shopping at my online auction to benefit the Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center. The ... Read on »

In memoriam: Arnold Rosoff by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Arnold Rosoff, known to the world as an exceptional advertising executive, died this week at age 93. Arnold was a trustee and volunteer in our hospital. Here's the most fitt ... Read on »

US Healthcare Reform Photoshop Contest by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dr. Wes announces the first (and perhaps only) US Healthcare Reform Photoshop Contest. Photographs in support or against the current efforts will be equally considered. The w ... Read on »

How our staff gets high by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Mount Everest is the background. This was taken two weeks ago from Kala Patar in Nepal. The people are Margie Serrano, RN (nurse manager of Farr 6 and CVICU), Alan Lisbon MD ( ... Read on »

Evidence in Medicine by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A new blog by David Rind. Very timely. Read on »

We are eating ourselves to death by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I'm taking a risk of offending here, but I don't mean it that way at all. It could be written about much of this country. This particular post is prompted by an AP story by ... Read on »

There is no billing code for compassion by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Our Dr. Amy Ship won the Campassionate Caregiver Award from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center last night. The center conducts programs to educate, train and support car ... Read on »

Optimism? Other options? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This New York Timesstory by Michael Grynbaum tells of a new transit pass in New York City that has the word "optimism" printed on the reverse. Why? “God know ... Read on »

Donate Life New England by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy BIDMC was just presented with this award for its role in promoting organ donations. The sponsor, Donate Life New England, coordinates organ donation programs throughout the r ... Read on »

Thanks for the rush! by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It has been a beautiful fall here in New England, and I have been taking some early morning bike rides. It is dark when I head out, so I have the full panoply of reflective g ... Read on »

A long day by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Even with enforced restrictions on duty hours, it can be a long day for residents. Next time, I hope this fellow can find a bed instead of a chair at the end of a corridor. ... Read on »

Tweeting while you talk? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So, I have been doing a fair number of speeches lately, and you always wonder what people in the audience are thinking. Might they be publishing tweets with their opinions wh ... Read on »

Caught between mammograms by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here is a great commentary by WBUR's Rachel Zimmerman about the uncertainties raised by recent articles about mammograms. Read on »

Dean Flier offers his views by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier offers a thoughtful and honest perspective on the health care bills circulating in Congress in this Wall Street Journal op-ed. Jeff ... Read on »

Stories about Harvey Goldman, MD by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I reported in April on the death of Dr. Harvey Goldman, one of our beloved and esteemed colleagues (who loved baseball and is here seen with a Red Sox World Series trophy). T ... Read on »

The former Speaker speaks by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Here are some folks from around the country at the Press Ganey National Client Conference today in Maryland. The "clients" is this case are hospital and physician g ... Read on »

City Sourced, a great app idea by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I met a fellow today named David Kralik who is part of a new venture that has developed a wonderful iphone, Blackberry, etc. application called City Sourced. The idea is that ... Read on »

Art on the MBTA by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A short while back, I wrote about new uninformative signs and annoying audio messages on the local transit system. Having run a large public agency, I really understand and s ... Read on »

Market failure --> New entrants? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This story by Rob Weisman in today's Boston Globe is about large insurance rate increases being faced by small businesses in Massachusetts. But, it is really about the lack o ... Read on »

At the Saturday Club by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Rob Velella (the one on the left) wanted to commemorate the 200th birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and so he wrote a one-act play called "At the Saturday Club." T ... Read on »

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