In 1981 the young Argentinean doctor left his Harvard-affiliated hospital with another colleague to set up shop in Fort Myers, Fla.
The resourceful Scott family ultimately used the Internet to bypass the brokers and cut a deal directly with the First Affiliated Hospital at the College of Medicine of the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.
Andy Sullivan, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon and chief medical officer of the university-affiliated hospital, told a Senate committee that the little spine hospital, and the six other specialty hospitals like it in the city, were an unethical distortion of the free market.
Although previous reports had indicated she would move directly to a rehabilitation facility affiliated with the hospital, she instead was taken to the hospital's trauma center for evaluation and treatment, Kim said.
For instance, Ross Zafonte, a traumatic-brain-injury and rehabilitation expert at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, said he was treating two patients who played the same position for a similar time in the league.
Patients who shop around often do so on the basis of intangibles like whether a hospital is affiliated with a famous university or pro sports team.
In addition, one child was in critical condition at Children's Hospital, which is affiliated with the medical center.
One driving factor is that children born in the past with complex heart defects "didn't survive at nearly the rate that they do now, " said Jared O'Leary, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital.
Kaiser Permanente had set out to fully digitize its hospitals and affiliated physicians on a scale no other hospital had accomplished.
They then correlated those data with records of the number of hospital beds in each county that are affiliated with medical residency training programs.
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Jonathan Steinberg and Suneet Mittal are Columbia University-affiliated electrophysiologists who also direct the EP program at a large suburban nonteaching hospital.
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