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Surgeries were on hold this morning at MGH, Brigham and Women's due to computer problems

By adamg - 2/11/19 - 8:37 am

UPDATE, 8:50 a.m. Partners reports the EPIC system is back up.

Patrick McMahon reports from a Mass. General waiting room that the Partners computer network was down.

Judge agrees double-booked surgery at Mass. General sounds awful, but puts whistleblower lawsuit on life support

By adamg - 4/2/18 - 6:29 pm

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by an anesthesiologist who sued Mass. General over double-booked surgeries - but gave her 45 days to come up with detailed proof the government was billed for operations senior surgeons did not actually participate in and so re-open the suit. Read more.

Why Mass. General doesn't arm its security guards

By adamg - 2/13/16 - 2:30 pm

Tinker Ready extracts the relevant passage from a Times story about gun-toting security guards at hospitals in the rest of the country. At Mass. General, they're not even sure the guards should wear uniforms.

Help reunite a stuffed pig with his owner

By adamg - 8/19/15 - 12:23 pm

Measles cases at Mass. General, MetroWest Medical Center

By adamg - 9/4/13 - 8:39 am

The Boston Business Journal reports on the confirmed cases in the last half of August.

Mass. General, Brigham and Women's not doing us any favors with newly announced rates

By adamg - 1/22/12 - 9:56 am

Paul Levy, who complained loudly about Partners Healthcare when he was CEO of Beth Israel, marvels at what he says is the spin on its recently announced contracts with Tufts and Blue Cross, that what the hospital holding company says is a willingness to rein in costs only perpetuates a system in which consumers and employers pay more than they should.

Man tied to Mass. General suture thefts pleads guilty, gets prison time

By adamg - 2/23/11 - 2:20 pm

Nelson Banol of Revere was sentenced to 5 1/2 months in federal prison today for his role in a plot to steal supplies from Mass. General and ship them to Colombia.

Banol, who worked at the hospital, admitted he stole $3,240 worth of sutures over a 19-month period, along with another man who is charged with stealing roughly $163,000 worth of pediatric pulse oximetry sensors, the US Attorney's Office in Boston reports.

How a surgeon at Mass. General performed the wrong procedure on a patient

By adamg - 11/11/10 - 3:57 pm

The New England Journal of Medicine has a case study on the error, in which the surgeon himself explains what happened and the hospital discusses how it changed its policies to try to prevent this. The case study doesn't say when the incident occurred, but notes the case was originally discussed at a conference in January, 2009.

Via CommonHealth.

Mass. General Museum

By adamg - 2/12/10 - 8:10 am

Look who's hiring a museum director:

Mass. General beyond Ether Dome

By adamg - 9/17/06 - 7:14 pm

Spatch takes a tour of Mass. General's historic Ether Dome, which may be the first place where somebody was ever anaesthetized:

... This operating theater was the place of over 8,000 surgical procedures from 1818 to 1868, and the fact that anesthesia was only used from 1846 on was difficult to contemplate. What screams must have echoed through this chamber, I thought, while Learned Men of Medicine sat in the oddly-shaped seats, peering down at the blood and gore, taking notes or nodding approvingly. ...

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