Boston Top Doctors 2009: Boston's Top Hospitals : Boston Hospitals : Boston's Best Hospitals
THE BIG PLAYERS Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterKnown for top-notch cardiovascular care and treatment of digestive diseases, the BID sees about 750,000 patients every year, most of them through its main campus at Longwood. It also has a new $30…
Top Doctors 2009: The Doctors Are In (Progress) : Boston Medical Students
VENIS WILDERVitals: Fourth-year at Harvard, 25, from Fort Lauderdale, FLGoing into: Family medicineTen years from now: "A leadership role in the federal Office of Minority Health" "I went to college thinking I was going to be a judge. But after…
Bitter Pills: Harvard Medical School and Big Pharma
It was like something out of Michael Clayton, only with Big Pharma as the villain: A Pfizer drug rep, clad in a black suit, was taking cell-phone pictures of students protesting Harvard Medical School’s ties to the drug industry. Staged…
Why Your Doctor Needs a Raise
Several months ago, I tried to get an appointment with a primary care doctor—any primary care doctor. I didn’t have a go-to M.D. already, but what I did have were the sorts of connections that I figured might make things…
