MGH

What's more cost-effective: Full-page ads or a CEO blog?

adamg — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:48:38 -0500

Paul Levy at Beth Israel Deaconess discusses the full-page ad Brigham and Women's and Mass. General took out in the Globe today to tell us how wonderful they are (no doubt out of a sense of bursting pride, not because of a Globe Spotlight article on how they are using their muscle to boost their reimbursement rates).

Why we pay so much for hospital care

adamg — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:14:23 -0500

The Globe reports part of the reason is doctors and we insist on care at MGH, Brigham and Women's and Children's, not just for fancy-shmancy cases but for everything - and they are so big now they can get away with charging dramatically higher rates than community hospitals and even other teaching hospitals in the region:

... [T]he high-end procedures that make the Brigham and Mass. General so famous are not their bread and butter. Eighty-five percent of the time their doctors are performing the same less glamorous medicine that occupies most other hospitals: delivering babies, repairing hernias, treating pneumonia. ...

Lying is such an ugly word

adamg — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:32:24 -0400

The New York Times documents what might be a conflict-of-interest scandal among certain Harvard Medical School psychiatrists, notably one who helped create a huge new market for anti-psychotic drugs in children who somehow managed not to report most of the $1.6 million he got paid by drug companies to university officials.

Chronicle of a fight against cancer

adamg — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:34:07 -0400

"On September 7, Rick had a biopsy and it was clear that he had a malignant tumor." In this Flickr set, he photographs his battle - and treatment at Mass. General.

Hospital tacos

adamg — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:13:22 -0400

Burrito Blog confirms that Anna's Taqueria is opening at Mass. General Hospital.