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...said. “We see competition as a very good thing because it keeps you on focus and keeps you good at what you are doing.” Brigham and Women’s move toward a new cardiovascular center reflects the teaching hospital??s long-term goal of targeting and integrating treatment services in five disease areas: cardiovascular diseases, oncology, musculoskeletal diseases, neurosciences, and women’s health. In fact, the idea for the new cardiovascular center predated hospital CEO Gary L. Gottlieb in 2002, but was completely scrapped and reworked because the original...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital??have found that many eligible stroke victims do not receive an important clot-dissolving drug on time, significantly increasing their risk of disability. The study is part of a larger research project into hospitals’ performance in quality improvement campaigns for stroke patients, including the American Stroke Association-based “Get With the Guidelines.” It will appear in the November issue of the journal Stroke. The drug in question, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), is the only...
FEMA workers, who had volunteered for little pay to take on a job that would ultimately include body collection, waited on metal folding chairs outside the hospital??s entrance. They smoked long menthol cigarettes and squinted their eyes at the track field, where once in a while a Blackhawk helicopter would land...
...time when, during busy periods, my grandfather’s bedside manner was said to be practiced at the side of his own mattress. My relatives, for one, have long since left that original two-story house. I have personally witnessed snapshots of the past seven years of the hospital??s growth—enough, at the very least, to see it thrillingly renamed the Dr. Pablo O. Torre Sr. Memorial Hospital, in honor of its founder...
...Given his broad horizon and the depth of his experience—working in the White House in health-care policy and in the trenches at an acute-care hospital??he has an extraordinary perspective that covers the depth and breadth of the field of medicine,” says Anthony D. Whittemore, Chief Medical Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and HMS Professor of Surgery. “That puts him in a unique position to describe the whole spectrum of opportunities available in health care...