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...administrators--Dr. H. Richard Nesson '54 of the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dr. J. Robert Buchanan of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)--said they accept Tosteson's long-term vision of integrating the operations of all five Harvard-affiliated hospitals. But they painted a picture of a dean without the authority to effect those changes, and who was only peripherally aware of the negotiations' progress...
Both hospital administrators asserted that Tosteson was instrumental in launching negotiations among all five teaching hospitals earlier this year. Still, they conceded, those talks ultimately "bogged down"--Nesson said they "weren't going anywhere and people were getting frustrated"--prompting the Brigham and MGH to break off from the rest of the group...
...began together in the six-way conversations in January," said Nesson, referring to meetings that included Tosteson and administrators from the five hospitals. "It was in the summer that the...boards [of the Brigham and MGH] determined and told the dean that we thought [it] was too difficult to move and that we were going to try to work it out ourselves, but with the same objectives that he had initially...
...addition, both Nesson and Buchanan acknow- ledged that Tosteson was only informed of thetwo-way talks once the Brigham and MGH had alreadyagreed to hold them. The dean was not invited tothe discussions, they said...
Tosteson did not return phone calls yesterday.But in an interview with The Globe Tuesday, thedean said he did not see the Brigham-MGH merger asa "fragmenting event," though he admitted that"there are not a few members of our community atthe moment who do perceive it as such...