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...Neil Sugarman commented last week, "an unfair choice, a choice no human being should be forced to make." To try to evade it, Lewis surreptitiously checked out of New England Baptist after three days and was taken by his wife, Donna Harris-Lewis, to seek a second opinion at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she had once worked in the human resources department. There Lewis was examined by a team headed by Dr. Gilbert Mudge, chief of the hospital's cardiology clinic. Mudge's diagnosis, delivered in a televised press conference: no life-threatening heartbeat arrhythmia, but instead neurocardiogenic...
Mudge, who is also a cardiologist at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, is a regular instructor in the course, "Clinical Cardiology." He is scheduled to teach it again during the 1993-94 academic year. According to the medical school, Mudge also will teach "Core Medicine Clerkship I" next year...
Nicknamed Punky, Mudge is credited with founding an exchange program between a Moscow hospital and Brigham and Women...
Since its merger, Brigham and Women's has emerged as one of the mightiest of the Harvard teaching hospitals. In the fiscal year ended September 1991, the most recent year for which figures are available at the state Office of Public Charities, the hospital reported an annual operating surplus of $33 million...
Declining birth rates have also adversely affected the obstetrics area, where there is fierce competition between Brigham and Women's Mass. General, and Beth Israel hospitals. And pressure from insurers have, led doctors and patients to move toward less costly outpatient care, she says...