Why Are Health Care Organizations’ Ethics Codes News?
This just in from the Orlando Sentinel, The head of Central Florida’s largest blood bank told Florida senators Wednesday that she has completely overhauled the operation — from the boardroom to the bloodmobile. ‘Believe me, I get it,’ an apologetic Anne Chinoda told members of a committee investigating the business ways of Florida’s Blood Centers [...]
More on Paul Levy
Bob Wachter, a long time admirer of Levy, weighed in yesterday: Paul Levy, the blogging CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, found himself in hot water last month over an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate. While some of the details of the transgression remain sketchy, I think I now know enough to [...]
When COPD exacerbation leads to hospitalization
—it′s a sentinel event. Via Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Full test via Medscape.
Leadership, solitude, and unconventional wisdom
A topic we have discussed in class (and which I posted about here) is the counter-intuitive (at least, it was to me) idea that the networking available through the internet regarding cultural goods – recommendations from Amazon or Netflix regarding things you might like, based on previous purchases or evaluations – might actually be narrowing [...]
VERY IMPORTANT: Hearing next Wednesday, Sept 29, on H.R. 4645, at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
In case you believe I had too many Cuban mojitos in my CJ post previous to this one, here is the info: FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP NOTICE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515-0128 Howard L. Berman (D-CA), Chairman September 22, 2010 TO: MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRSU.S. HOUSE OF [...]
