Hospital (56 page)

as Mitzvah Man

overlapping responsibilities with Marcel Biberfeld

relationship with Miriam Lubling

relationship with Steven Davidson

role in Maimonides community and patient relations

son’s wedding

view of gossip as hospital’s enemy

view of Sondra Olendorf

Jablon, Edy

Jablonsky, Yitzy

Jacobi Medical Center, The Bronx

Jacobowitz, Israel

JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)

Jewish Defense League

Johnson, Elvia

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals

Kahane, Meir

Kam, Chris

Kaminer, Anita

Kaplan, Kathryn

Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS)

Katrina (hurricane)

Keen, Lisa

case of Mr. Zen

case of Mrs. Devi

case of Ms. Hernandez

in cast of characters

and deceased Chinese patient

and new medicine

Keilitz, Eileen

Kelly, Raymond

Kennedy, Winnie

Khafif, Rene

Khenkin, Nella

Kho, David

Kidney, Carol

Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center

Kleinman, Arthur

Koch, Ed

Konstadt, Steven

Kopel, Samuel

background

backs Mendel Warshawsky for cancer center position

in cast of characters

and colon-cancer screening

description

feud with Michael Bashevkin

and opera

and question of outcome measurement

relationship with Alan Astrow

role in cancer center

view of Jay Cooper

view of recordkeeping

wife Sharon

Kopel-Hubal, Lisa

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth

La Traviata
(opera)

labor-management issues

Lahey, Stephen

Lamont, Patrick

late-term abortion procedure

Lazes, Peter

Lazzaro, Richard

Leahy, Joyce

Lichstein, Edward

Liebowitz, Dr.

linear accelerator

LoCicero, Joseph

Lu, Bing

Lubling, Miriam

Lukyatenko, Yevgeniy (Eugene)

Magnet Recognition Program

Maimonides (physician)

Maimonides Medical Center.
See also
cancer center, Maimonides

admission issues

Aron Pavilion

bed management

Bikur Cholim volunteers

bioethics committee

budgetary and numbers issues

cafeteria

Maimonides Medical Center
(cont.)

characteristics

Code of Mutual Respect

data collection

discharge issues

emergency room

executive offices

feuds within

founding and history

Hatzolah emergency medical service

hospital ratings

labor-management issues

languages at

learning center

location in Brooklyn

vs.
Manhattan hospitals

medical records

multiculturalism

Orthodox Jews as patients

Orthodox Jews as staff members

overview

partnership with Victory Memorial Hospital

payment systems

press coverage

primary-care clinics

pronouncing name

psychiatry department

and religious observances

seeks Magnet hospital status

statistics

waiting room impression

Web site

as “wired” hospital

Makki Mosque

malpractice insurance

Mankan, Nagander

Marie (patient)

Marion, Francis

Markowitz, Marty

Marshall, John

McDougle, Mark

advice to Alan Astrow

background

in cast of characters

as chief operating officer

description

relationship with Bill Camilleri

relationship with Pam Brier

view of Hatzolah

view of Jacobowitz-Cunningham feud

view of Maimonides gestalt

McMurray, Paul

Medicaid

medical errors

medical records

Medicare

Mestel, Pamela

methadone

Meyer, Marshall

Minkoff, Howard

Morales, Margie

Moses

Nakka, Sushma

Naldi, Robert

Namm, Sheila

Nathanson, Jill

National Cancer Survivors Day

National Council on Interpreting in Health Care

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC)

New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Niagara Health Quality Coalition

Nishei Cares

Nosair, El Sayyid

Novetsky, Allan

Nuland, Sherwin

nurse’s aides.
See
PCTs (patient-care technicians)

Oath of Maimonides

Occam’s razor

Olendorf, Sondra

attends Trust Initiative conference at Harvard

background

and bed management

in cast of characters

and Clarence Davis’s hearse at Maimonides

and Curious George

description

performance-improvement role

relationship with Pam Brier

view of Bill Camilleri

works toward achieving Magnet status for Maimonides

Orthodox Jews

Bikur Cholim volunteers

Hatzolah emergency medical service

as Maimonides patients

as Maimonides staff members

and Yitzy Jablonsky’s wedding

outcome measurement

pain management

Marshall’s view

and Mr. Zen

and Pam Brier

Pakistani American Federation of New York

Palermo, Fabio

paramedics

Park Surgical Company

partial-birth abortion procedure

Patel, Jill

patient reps

patient-care technicians (PCTs)

Payson, Martin

aftermath of Pam Brier’s auto accident

agrees to journalist’s request for year-long access

in cast of characters

compares hospital with movie business

at Juneboard meeting

and Makki Mosque

at opening of new cancer center

relationship with Joseph Cunningham

reliance on Lillian Fraidkin

view of Douglas Jablon’s job

Payson, Martin
(cont.)

view of health care system

visits Marty Markowitz in hospital

PCTs (patient-care technicians)

Perumandla, Sirisha

Petit, John

Pfiefer, Jennifer

pharmaceutical companies

Piamenta, Yossi

Pierre, Marie .

Pineiro, Irving

pooh-bah

Popp, Beth

Quan, Joanne

Ragmuffin Parade

Rahman, Asm

Ramsay, Carl

Ranjiv, Guptay

Razaq, Mohammed

recordkeeping.
See
medical records

reimbursements, insurance

Rietschel, Petra

Rivera, Madeline

Romanelli, Theresa

Rosenblum, Robert

Rosenthal, Perry

Rosman, Elliot “Lazer,”

Rosner, David

Rubin, Philip

Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Sabbath elevator

Sabir, Hafiz Mohammad

St Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn

St Vincent Hospital

Salick, Bernard

Salick Health Care

Scalettar, Eric

Schneerson, Menachem Mendel

Scholem, Gershom

Schwartz, Amit

Scott, George .

Septemberattacks

Shani, Jacob

Sharon, Ariel

Shelov, Steven

Shem, Samuel

Shore, David A.

Solucient

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Sominsky, Inna

Sommer, Barbara

Spector, Michelle

Spencer, Frank

Spiro, Howard

Starr, Paul

Strongwater, Allan

Sukkot (ritual)

Sulmasy, Daniel

Suppiah, Kathir

Tache, Jason

Tarkovsky, Regina

TeleTracking Technologies

Templeton Foundation

Time Warner

Timerman, Jacobo

Tina (sister of patient Marie)

“To Err Is Human” report

Todd, Gregory

toxoplasmosis

Travolta, John

Turok, Melissa

Twerski, Aaron

UMass Memorial Health Care

United Nations

Victory Memorial Hospital

VitalSmarts

Warshawsky, Mendel

Welles, Orson

Wexelman, Warren

Wexner, Leslie

World Trade Center

bombing

Septemberattacks

Xu, Yiqing

Yang, Janice

Yohannes, Michael

Yu, Chung-fang

Zen, Mr. (patient)

About the Author

Julie Salamon, a bestselling author, was a reporter and critic for the
New York Times
and the
Wall Street Journal
. Her six previous books include
The Devil’s Candy
, considered a Hollywood classic;
Facing the Wind,
a true crime account; and
Rambam’s Ladder,
a prize-winning book about modern philanthropy and charity. In 2006 she was selected as a Kaiser Media Fellow. Her journalism and essays have been published in several anthologies and have appeared in the
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bazaar,
and
The New Republic
. A native of Seaman, Ohio, she lives in New York City with her husband, Bill Abrams, and their two children.