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• October 15, 2019 / General

  Engaged Nurses Unlock the Magic

  Let’s follow the course of a typical hospital patient.  The family is in the hospital waiting room, filling out the same exact forms that they have completed many times before.  They must endure […]

   
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• October 11, 2019 / General

  Healthcare’s version of “Sophie’s Choice”

  “The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.”                                    Lucian Leape Patients always take a leap of faith when they […]

   
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• October 5, 2019 / General

  Motley Crew of Overachievers

  A new cardiac surgeon was interviewing for a position at Three Crosses Hospital, a new facility that will emphasize cardiology and cardiac surgery as its top service line.  The surgeon is […]

   
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• March 10, 2019 / General

  Get Rid of Those that Silently Disagree and Sabotage

  I’ve gained invaluable experience in my role as a chief of cardiac surgery over the last 10 years.  One of the most important (and painful) lessons I’ve learned is that […]

   
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• January 5, 2019 / General

  Brutal Transparency Will Save Robotic Cardiac Surgery

  The underlying premise of less invasive surgery has always been the patient’s interests.  From the patient’s perspective, surgical incisions are a necessary evil that should be minimized or eliminated if […]

   
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• November 9, 2018 / General

  Making Hospitals More Hospitable to Innovation

  The past decade made one thing clear about robotic cardiac surgery: it is a tough project to get off the ground.  Most attribute this to a long and hazardous initial phase where […]

   
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• November 4, 2018 / General

  The Safety of Robotic CABG

  Surgery is a team sport.  To most, that means everyone on the team has their specific job to do for their patients to get a good outcome; to “play your […]

   
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• July 15, 2018 / General

  Why Change Now?

  It is my goal to get the cardiac surgery program at Downstate back on track by providing the safest possible care to our patients.  We’ve now had several meetings where […]

   
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• May 28, 2018 / General

  Why I’m Leaving Mt. View

  Based on advice of several trusted nurses that I’ve enjoyed working with over the last year and a half, I am writing this post to confirm that I am taking […]

   
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• May 26, 2018 / General

  What Would Happen if the Joint Commission Inspected Nuclear Power Plants?

  Let’s suppose you go to work every day at a high risk job – where preventable deaths happen every day – and you start to realize several obvious problems with […]

   
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