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...workers' health and safety. An estimated 80,000 drivers a day, for example, doze off while behind the wheel. And supporting those exhausted legions creates even more of them. "People expect to pull in at Starbucks at 5 a.m. to get coffee," says Dr. Charles Czeisler of Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital. "But the one who prepares it is setting...
...people who work there, without scaring patients and visitors, that there's an emergency. Code red is typically a fire in the hospital; code blue is cardiac arrest. I was three weeks out of medical school, a brand new surgical intern (that is, a first-year resident) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, when my days and nights began to be punctuated by the heady rush of codes...
...rule at the Brigham was that we, the Surgical team, ran the code. Medical teams' advice was suspect - they never gave enough fluid or bicarbonate, didn't use big enough IV's or strong enough electrical shocks. They were not "procedurally oriented"; no "hands." "Doctors who can't operate" was the typically arrogant Brigham surgeons' term for the medical residents...
Michael T. Ty, a neurology resident at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals and a Harvard Medial School (HMS) alumnus, died unexpectedly April 3, as the result of a construction accident that killed two others as well. Ty, 28, was driving down Boylston Street when a 10-ton lift platform crashed down on his car. The construction accident also killed two workers who were building Emerson College’s new Piano Row residence hall and student center. Ty graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University and received his MD in 2004 from...
...board, and will continue to inform the researchers as their studies begin. "We certainly realize that all eyes [are] upon us," said Eggan. The approval process eventually involved four other institutes, including Boston IVF, where the egg donors will be recruited, Children's Hospital, Partners Health Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Columbia University, where some of the patients will be enrolled...