The Globe reports the body of Dr. Brent Cambron was found today in an operating-room storage closet at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Officials suspect suicide by Cambron, who battled drug addiction and who was dismissed by the hospital in June, 2007; they are investigating how he gained access to what is supposed to be a secure part of the hospital.

In 2005, Cambron was one of three recipients of the chief resident's award at the hospital.

Cambron's LinkedIn page.

Dr. T discusses doctors' superstitions (yes, they have them, too):

... There's so much stress and chaos in the hospital, and lack of control in medicine, that sometimes little rituals and superstitions can be very comforting. I know one surgeon who never books his cases in a particular O.R. that he considers the Room of Doom. Some folks arrange their instruments a particular way without fail. I knew another doc who had a lucky brassiere that she would make sure she wore on her calls so they would be qui - er, not too busy. That's another thing - never admit that a call is quiet, or say the word quiet at all, ever! Then the cases will start pouring in and the beeper will be beeping non-stop! ...

A Suffolk County grand jury yesterday indicted a computer consultant on charges he bribed two employees at Partners Healthcare over four years to win "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in contracts with the healthcare giant, the state Attorney General's office announced. The two employees were also indicted.

Partners is the holding company that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. T recounts the night she failed a friend by not speaking up:

... This same woman, Nurse X, yelled at my friend on the housekeeping staff, let's call her Z, to get her cleaning supplies cart out of the way while a patient was being wheeled out of the O.R. I saw the incident. The cart was not in the way to begin with. Nurse X took Z by the shoulders and shoved her to the wall, crashing her into the cart in the process, causing the cleaning water to spill into the corridor and Z to nick her shin. Nurse X roughly manhandled Z, who is small, in a way she would never dream of doing to a man "of rank" in the hospital. ...

Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is amused to read some know-it-all explain that CEOs should never blog because their time is too valuable to waste:

... [P]oor misled Mr. Brooks, thinking CEO time is precious. In fact, it is the least valuable time in an organization if things are working right. And, if things are not working right, it is even less valuable.

Hero to the Masses reports his doctor has ordered a mammogram for him:

... I'm thinking of wearing a toolbelt and pretending to fix one of the heat ducts until I'm called. ...

When Ed blogged about his awful outpatient experience at Mass. Eye and Ear in July (he got there for a 2 p.m. appointment with an eye specialist, then kept getting shuffled around until he finally saw the guy at 5:30), he got letters and phone calls of apologies - and promises that next time things would be better.

He reports:

... Today, I am happy to say they kept their word. ... Kudos to Mass Eye and Ear for listening to its patients and actually doing something about its problems.

Jeffrey Keller, 53, of Peabody, today admitted to molesting four patients at his Revere office, the Suffolk County DA's office reports. However, if he is a good boy for the next three years, he won't have to spend any time in jail - if he does violate probation, he could thrown in jail for up to eight years.

Keller pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault and battery on patients. He was initially charged with molesting two women; two more came forward after his case was publicized, the DA's office says.

In addition to probation, Keller must register as a sex offender, wear a GPS monitoring bracelet, undergo sex offender treatment, stay away from the victims and not be employed in a role where he would have physical contact with women. He has already given up his chiropractic license.

John Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess's chief information officer, explains why certain information isn't available to patients via the hospital's online patient-records system.

The Globe reports.

Hospital CEO Paul Levy offers no excuses - but challenges other hospitals, which were not named, to talk about the issue:

... The fact that "9 percent of the total number of programs, including 19 surgery programs" around the country have faced similar programs is not an excuse for our failure to meet this national standard, and we believe we have taken actions now that will ensure our compliance. ...