A note last week to the BIDMC staff. Readers of this blog can join in, too!
To: BIDMC CommunityFrom:Eric Buehrens, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice PresidentLisa Zankman, Senior Vice President, Human ResourcesSubject: New Team Fund Raising for Haiti Relief
Earlier this week, our Development staff presented a check for $33,616 to Partners in Health for [...]

On a very cold day, ice takes on unusual forms at the Plum Island beach near Newburyport, MA. Meanwhile, a resting seal looks on.

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We might never really know for sure in my lifetime. I take them because I think my diet isn’t diverse enough.
In any event, here’s an interesting read published by the Washington Post, Evidence is thin that multivitamins are beneficial, but they seem benign. 
Learn more about vitamins:
- in this FDA video, Fortify Your [...]

Last week at this time I was surviving a terrible electrical storm — tremendous cracks and crackles all around me. Luckily, it was just the lightning show at the Boston Museum of Science, featuring the world’s largest Van de Graaf generator and a pair of huge Tesla coils and other sparking whatnots. TNG [...]

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Our Medical Executive Committee recently received a report from our Critical Care Committee. I cannot be more proud of our staff and the progress they have made to reduce harm and improve quality of care in our ICUs. I include two of the charts.
Let me translate the implications of the reduction in Ventilator [...]

I can’t believe how thrilled I was to get a run-time error today! Because that was the first sign I had gotten past the Scala roadblock I mentioned in my previous post. It would have been nicer for the case to just work, but apparently my SAM file was incomplete or corrupt. But, [...]

Bill Shore is founder of Share our Strength. He wrote this dispatch after a mission to Haiti with Jeff Swartz, CEO of Timberland. They flew down in the company plane with relief supplies. Then, make sure you read the post just below, too, which confirms Bill’s point about heartbreak and heroes.
Haiti’s general [...]

Well, I’ve taken the plunge — yet another programming language.
I’ve written before about this. It’s also a common question on various professional bioinformatics discussion boards: what programming language.
It is a decent time to ponder some sort of shift. I’ve written a bit of code, but not a lot — partly because I’ve been [...]

Here is an email from Dr. Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr, Division Chief, Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital to our chief of surgery and me:
Dear President Levy and Dr. Hurst,
As part of a multidisciplinary multihospital team, I had the honor and privilege to work alongside one of BIDMC’s outstanding nursing [...]