For The Record — I am a member of the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). The Board of Trustees is NOT the same as the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is the governing body that has fundamental oversight responsibility for the hospital. The Trustees serve as an ancillary […]

At the risk of overstaying my welcome on this subject, I thought I might comment on a recent story in the New York Times concerning practice pattern variation and the Wennberg guys at Dartmouth. The Times article — published on May 30th — focused on the fact that the resource use for elderly patients during the […]

There’s a big debate going on right now in Massachusetts about whether or not physicians should be allowed to accept gifts of any kind from pharmaceutical and medical device company representatives. In fact, the Massachusetts Senate passed legislation — currently before the House — that prohibits all kinds of gift giving — travel, honorarium, subscription […]