We speak with the CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It’s been a year since Levy announced a plan to eliminate preventable medical errors within four years, in part by talking about those mistakes on his blog and with the media. He says transparency will help control costs, but critics say the information will only upset patients.
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The mother of one of our colleagues Stef Kotsonis died late last year at age 77. In eulogizing his mom, Helen Panopalis Kotsonis, Stef remarked on one thread of her life that involved a woman named Masha Leon, and led us to a remarkable story that begins with the Holocaust and ends with a gift [...]
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