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Bookends

Good news/bad news from the world of medicine last week. Both stories from the business section of the NY Times and “business of health care” reporter Reed Abelson. The bad news first: Huron Hospital, a community hospital in East Cleveland, will be closed down by its corporate overlord, the Cleveland Clinic. Like many community hospitals, [...]

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United Nations of Medicine

Recently, I had the opportunity to decamp from the the friendly confines of GlassHospital and trek a few miles to the north. GlassHospital has brokered a teaching and patient-sharing agreement with a nearby religiously-affiliated community hospital I’ll call Our Lady of Blessed Proximity. Our Lady has a residency training program, just like ours, with the major difference [...]

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