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Tokyo has its pushers and the Orange Line has the angry screaming driver

By adamg - 11/2/11 - 8:03 pm

Got on the Orange Line to Forest Hills at Downtown Crossing at rush hour today and Angry Screaming Driver was in fine form, yelling at some woman who apparently didn't like the car she was in and ran to another. Then, at Chinatown, ASD kept it up:

Ma'am, you in the black dress, STOP RUNNING FROM CAR TO CAR! YOU'RE HOLDING UP THE TRAIN!

By the time we got to Tufts Medical Center, the black-dress lady had apparently learned her lesson, but the driver was still so mad she screamed out "TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER!" like an insult.

Debt deal could hit local teaching hospitals

By adamg - 8/3/11 - 8:57 am

WBUR reports on possible effects of research cuts on teaching hospitals in Massachusetts, which bring in more federal science funds per capita than any other state - some $2.4 billion just from the National Institutes of Health last year.

Just go up the stairs for Platform 9 3/4

By adamg - 5/17/11 - 7:57 am

Beth reports that as her Orange Line train approached New England Tufts Medical Center around 10:40 last night, the operator announced:

Next stop: Hogwarts. Don't forget your wands.

Earlier:
This train now running express to Mordor.

No strike at Tufts Medical Center

By adamg - 5/6/11 - 6:44 am

Nurses, hospital reached a last-minute deal, Channel 5 reports.

Tufts Medical Center nurses set one-day strike for May 6

By adamg - 4/26/11 - 1:36 pm

WBUR reports.

Male nurses shouldn't be blocking doors as they treat intoxicated young women

By adamg - 5/7/10 - 11:04 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a state board's decision to strip a male nurse of his license for repeated inappropriate behavior with drunk women in the emergency room at what is now Tufts Medical Center.

Tufts pays to have subway station renamed

By adamg - 3/25/10 - 10:16 am

Tufts Medical Center paid the MBTA $150,000 for the recent re-naming of New England Medical Center stop on the Orange Line, spokesman Joe Pesaturo says. Pesaturo adds the new name will eventually be added to maps across the system as part of a two-year map replacement project.

Ever wonder what it would be like to have brain surgery done through your nose?

By adamg - 1/23/09 - 5:42 pm

This morning, Rob Sama reported he was going into Tufts Medical Center to have a benign tumor removed from his pituitary gland. Went into quite a bit of detail; even posted copies of his MRIs for all you House and Gray's Anatomy fans. He came out of surgery OK, might even get to go home early, which we know because, of course, he posted an update this afternoon.

Tufts, Blue Cross reach doctor deal

By adamg - 1/17/09 - 11:32 am

Channel 4 reports Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross/Blue Shield have reached agreement on a new contract that will let Blue Cross patients keep seeing Tufts doctors.

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