Posted on 07/07/2006 3:41:42 AM PDT by jaime1959
For the 16th straight year, Johns Hopkins Hospital has earned the top spot in the in U.S. News and World Report's annual list of the best hospitals nationwide.
"Once again, the magazine and medical professionals across the nation have affirmed the excellence of our faculty physicians, our nurses and our staff," Dr. Edward Miller, dean and chief executive of Johns Hopkins Medicine, said in a letter to employees.
Hopkins also ranked first in five specialties: ear, nose and throat, gynecology, kidney disease, urology and rheumatology. It also ranked second in neurology/neurosurgery, ophthalmology and psychiatry; third in cancer, digestive disorders, endocrinology, heart and heart surgery, respiratory disorders and pediatrics; fourth in orthopedics; and 17th in rehabilitation.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
We're Number 1!
We're Number 1!
We're Number 1!
Wooooooooooooooooooo!
Yeah but not just anyone can be treated at Hopkins, I assume?
Both my wife and my mother have been. And there was not really any special requirement other than to have a referral from the family physician (obviously a specialist there would have to accept the case...)
From experience above, it's an outstanding facility located in a particularly bad part of Balto. But it is a BIG facility and sometimes, as with other big facilities, the bureaucracy is miserable to deal with.
Do you work there?
They perform lots of sex-change operations. I'd rather avoid that hospital.
You assume incorrectly. Have lived in Baltimore, or its environs, my entire life, and have had several family members treated there, as well as a few friends.
It is located in a pretty seedy part of town, and its er stays pretty busy.
The department website I visited indicated that they may *prefer* a referral, but it's not required. (Other department's policies may be different.)
They perform lots of sex-change operations. I'd rather avoid that hospital.
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Yes. Apparently the desire to have a sex change is contagious. You might catch it. Also, the doctors get confused sometimes. I went in for ACL replacement surgery, and came out a woman.
It is a great hospital. It's unfortunate that the surrounding neighborhood is such a hell hole.
It turned out to be precautionary. I'm just a regular schmoe. The folks were great and we were on our way about five hours later.
They perform lots of sex-change operations. I'd rather avoid that hospital.
Are you afraid they might operate on the wrong part of the body? LOL. I could not resist....sorry.
Bump
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Yeah. Especially since they closed the Broadway Garage. Now you have to either schlep all the way over from Outpatient Parking or have the pleasure of walking a couple of blocks on Monument. Neither is an enjoyable option, particularly at night or even during the day (for those who don't move so well.)
Baltimore DID have an air of charm and gentility once. It was a fine old Southern city of cotillions and debutantes. There did exist a grandeur and grace which is largely gone now.
Quelle dommage.
Ping, for absolutely no reason.
They perform lots of sex-change operations. I'd rather avoid that hospital.
Yep. I walked by it not long ago and there was all manner of male genitals flying out of the windows onto the street. People regularly use umbrellas when walking in the area.
Yes.
> They perform lots of sex-change operations. I'd rather avoid that hospital. <
Yeah, right. And lots of elephantoplasties, too.
Announcer (John Cleese): Tonight on Who Cares? we examine the frontiers of surgery. With us is the international financier and surgeon Reg LeCrisp and his most successful patient to date, the elephant Mr. George Humphries. (Elephant trumpets.) Mr. LeCrisp, the surgery on Mr. Humpries is truly remarkable, but--why an elephant?
LeCrisp (Terry Jones): Well, that was just a stroke of luck, really. An elephant's trunk became available after a road accident, and Mr. Humphries happened to be walking past the hospital at the time.
Announcer: And what was Mr. Humphries' reaction to the transplant of the elephant's organs?
LeCrisp: (interspersed with trumpeting) Surprise at first, then later shock, and deep anger and resentment. But his family were marvelous, they helped pull him through--
Announcer: How long was he in hospital?
LeCrisp: Well, he spent the first three weeks in our intensive care unit, and then eight weeks in the zoo.
Announcer: I see... Is Mr. Humphries now able to lead a fairly normal life?
LeCrisp: No. Oh, no, no. No--he still has to wash himself in a rather special way, he can only eat buns, and he's not allowed on public transport. But I feel these are very minor problems--
Announcer: Mm hmmm.
LeCrisp: --when you consider the very sophisticated surgery which Mr. Humphries has undergone. I mean, each of those feet he's got now weighs more than his whole body did before the... elephantoplasty, and the tusks alone--
Announcer: Er, some years ago you were the center of, er, controversy both from your own medical colleagues and from the Church when you grafted a pederast onto an Anglican bishop.
LeCrisp: Well, that's ignorance of the press, if I may say so. We've done thousands of similar operations, it's just that this time there was a bishop involved. I wish I could have more bishops, I--
Announcer: Is lack of donors a problem?
LeCrisp: There just aren't enough accidents. It's unethical and time-consuming to go out and *cause* them, so we're having to rely on whatever comes to hand-- chairs, tables, floor-cleaning equipment, drying-out racks, pieces of pottery... and these do pose almost insurmountable surgical problems. What I'm sitting on, in fact, is one of our more successful attempts. This is Mrs. Dudley. She had little hope of survival, she'd lost interest in life, but along came this very attractive mahogany frame, and now she's a jolly comfortable Chesterfield.
Announcer: Mm hmm. I see.
(Sound of car crash--sirens blaring)
LeCrisp: Oh--excuse me... (Rushes out.)
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