Boston’s mayor Tom Menino calls on some academic big shots to “fix” primary care:
The meeting at the city’s Parkman House included a who’s who from Boston’s healthcare landscape, including the presidents of three of the city’s biggest hospitals: Elaine Ullian from Boston Medical Center, Dr. Gary Gottlieb from Brigham and Women’s, and Ellen Zane from Tufts-New England Medical Center. Leaders of community health centers were there, too, along with the in-coming president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the dean of Boston University’s medical school, Dr. Karen Antman.
Good idea, big names, but I wouldn’t get too excited. The solution will not come from academia. They are too insulated, naive, and slow to respond to truly make a difference.
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Why does hizzoner need any wacademic help? He told us all a week or two ago that he was an expert on health care, when he railed against clinics staffed by physician extenders in drug stores and such…..
Tom Menino is a sick joke, even by the low standards of Boston politicians.
This sad collection of grotesquely overpaid bloviating pontificators could start with the sub-Medicaid reimbursement rates that Massachusetts plans to pay the doctors in the new “universal care.”
My comments also apply to all the pitiful excuses for Presidential Candidates, of both parties.
Ed Sodaro MD
Exactly, Boston academic medicine is highly invested in the procedure based status quo in medicine.