Westviews: Good Urgent Care is Not Enough
My comments on the 7th Avenue and 13th Street medical facility—which has been recently renamed Lenox Health Greenwich Village to suggest, I suppose, it is […]
Can Saving Lives Be Profitable?
By George Capsis Over the Labor Day weekend, the Leonard Lopate show ran a segment with two doctors talking about the high cost of US […]
Medical Billing Mystery
Dear George, It occurred to me that an example of the fees charged by Lenox Health Greenwich Village on 13th Street might be a useful […]
That Funny Building on 7th Avenue
Suppose you found yourself as the head of a hospital that had 61,000 employees, 13,000 nurses and 10,000 physicians and you had a name […]
It Takes a Team to Treat a Patient
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD One of the very first things I learned in medical school, when I started to take care of patients in Jacobi […]
Operating as a Single Hand, Beth Israel Takeover Interrupts Seasoned Medical Teams
By Bill Dienstag, PA-C A 46-year-old man with tearing chest pain and a history of hypertension stumbles into the ER at Beth Israel Medical Center. […]
Saving Your Life is Not Good Business “Urgent Care” Accepts that Heart Attack Victims are Expendable
By George Capsis This is an open letter to the advertising department at Lennox Hill Hospital and North Shore LIJ. A forty-six-year-old man with tearing […]
Lenox Health Passes First Year Anniversary
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD On July 17th, the Lenox Hill Healthplex, now to be renamed Lenox Health Greenwich Village, celebrated the first anniversary of […]
The $100,000 Knee
Dear Mr. Capsis: First of all, I very much enjoy your newspaper, look forward to reading it every month. I have lived in […]