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...presidents of Harvard's two largest teaching hospitals yesterday denied reports that they actively excluded Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 from talks leading to last week's announcement of their planned merger, but they acknowledged that the dean was not directly involved in the negotiations...
...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...
Nesson and Buchanan's comments came in response to a report in yesterday's Boston Globe. Citing unnamed sources at Harvard, the Globe story suggested that Tosteson and President Neil L. Rudenstine were both "out of the loop"--essentially uninformed and powerless--when it came to the hospital merger...
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...