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...treatment for patients in part patterned after the care given by his oncologist—Thomas J. Lynch, Jr. Now Lynch, the chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, will leave Harvard after 23 years to become the director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale announced Wednesday. “They gave me the opportunity to take some of the lessons I learned in the phenomenal success of MGH and apply it in a setting like Yale,” Lynch said...
While she had previous formal brush-ins with Day, he—as her boss—still sat on the credentials committee that reviewed her standing in 2007. In October, prompted by what she said were slanderous allegations by Day, Tuli was [allegedly] instructed to consult Physician Health Services—the code for evaluation by a psychiatrist. She was allegedly told that if she did not comply with the request, her credentials would be revoked within four months...
Kudos on the article about people's gullibility when it comes to detoxing. Many years ago I asked my physician whether illnesses are due at least 90% to what we eat; he nodded approvingly. These last 30 years I have eaten very sparingly, adhering to a strict Mediterranean regimen: plenty of fruit and vegetables and one glass of red wine, no red meat but lots of beans as a substitute. With a BMI of 20, I feel very healthy. Will people ever learn that gluttony and junk food are bad? Ettore Ulivelli, MILAN, ITALY...
...Also in attendance was Dr. William Wilder, the physician for the Cleveland Indians. Wilder was so disturbed by the presentation that he wrote a memorandum to Indians general manager John Hart that whether testosterone increased muscle strength and endurance "begs the question of whether it should be used in athletics." Wilder also endorsed sending information to players about the "known and unknown data about performance-enhancing substances...
...findings of the reviews showed there were no quality of care issues,” Fifer said. “Every one of the reviews showed that we are faced with critically ill patients.” Fifer said he’s concerned similar studies may cause physicians to stop taking the hardest cases, which he added is occurring in his department, where doctors are “not taking on as many high risk cases” to lower mortality statistics. Medical School Professor Sharon-Lise Normand, who led the study, agreed there was a chance doctors would...