Word: brigham
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...machines allow doctors to "see" a patient's heart without surgery. Major strides have been made in understanding how the heart works and why disease occurs. These in turn have led to breakthroughs in the operating theater and the drug research laboratory. Says Cardiologist Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel in Boston: "There's been more done in cardiology research in the past ten years than in its entire previous history." Roman DeSanctis of Massachusetts General Hospital terms it "one succession of miracles after another...
Petersdorf has said that he is resigning both because he prefers to live on the West Coast--where he lived for many years before joining the Brigham and Women's staff--and because he believes he is better suited to running an academic department or a medical school than to heading a hospital, James P. King, assistant vice president for corporate communications at the hospital, said yesterday...
King also said that Petersdorf got involved in more day-to-day operations at Brigham and Women's than he had planned...
...president of the hospital, Petersdorf played an important role in merging the medical departments of Brigham and Women's and Beth Israel, another Harvard-affiliated hospital, last year, Eugene Braunwald, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics and head of the combined departments, said yesterday...
...expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases, Petersdorf was also "much involved" in combining the Boston Hospital for Women, Robert Breck Brigham and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals to create Brigham and Women's, Braunwald said...