“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

August 26, 2019

Over the years I have collected some aphorisms, quotations and “classics” perhaps worth sharing. “I made a lot of mistakes in my time but didn’t waste any time making them.” (attributed to Gustave Levy, Goldman Sachs) “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” (Colin

PART 4. San Francisco General, a public hospital with San Francisco’s only trauma center, all commercial insurance WAS “out-of-network.”

August 20, 2019

See new PART 4 after PARTS 1, 2and 3. PART 1: January 31, 2019. “If you’re shot, stabbed, hit by a car, fall off a roof or suffer any other major injury in San Francisco, you’ll be whisked to San Francisco General Hospital, the only trauma center in the city “ PART 2: February 20,

PART 2. Conflict of Interest. MSK continued & top executives at the University of Maryland Medical System have resigned amid investigations into accusations of self-dealing among the hospital network’s board members

August 15, 2019

ASSIGNMENT: Identify other health care conflicts in the news then identify Best Practices of Boards of Trustees. New PART 2 after old PART 1. PART 1. September 28, 2018. HOW ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS ADDRESS CONFLICTS-OF-INTEREST. ASSIGNMENT: Profile the University of Maryland Medical System COI challenge. DISCLOSURE. I am a member and Interim Chairman of the

PART 3. Hopkins All Children’s Hospital/ North Carolina Children’s – pediatric cardiac surgery debacles.

August 2, 2019

ASSIGNMENT: What are the Lessons Learned from the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and North Carolina Children’s Hospital pediatric open cardiac surgery program failures? What are the regulatory implications? New PART 3 after PARTs 1 and 2. PART 1. February 26, 2019. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (St Petersburg, Florida) – problems in the hospital’s