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...have not read the book and I really don't have any comment on it at all said Scott, who has since left Harvard and is now a financial officer at Partners Healthcare Inc., the new corporate identity of the merger of two Harvard teaching hospitals--Mass. General and Brigham and Women...
...study follows up earlier work by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and other affiliates of the Medical School and School of Public Health...
According to the lead author of the study, Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, who is an endocrinologist and co-director of the women's health program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, weight gain outside of an ideal weight range at any age significantly increases chances of an early death...
Nowhere has the transformation of the teaching hospital been more dramatic than in Boston. Last year, in the medical merger of the century, Massachusetts General Hospital hooked up with Brigham and Women's Hospital; they had been ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in federal research dollars received. A few months earlier, Daniel Tosteson, dean of the Harvard Medical School, with which both hospitals are affiliated, wrote that "no single institution has the resources required to respond effectively to managed care and other external pressures ... while at the same time maintaining excellence across the full range of services...
...merged institution is cutting costs by, among other things, consolidating operations: for example, Brigham sends all liver-transplant patients to Massachusetts General. The total number of beds has been reduced from 1,700 to 1,514, and Samuel Thier, president of Massachusetts General, hopes to get that number down to 1,000. A first-year saving of $47 million out of a total combined budget of $1.1 billion seems to confirm what critics of the old teaching-hospital model, such as Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, have long maintained: these blue-chip institutions...