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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
M*A*S*H
mashgiach
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 Nemesis
medical records
Medicare
Mestel, Pamela
methadone
Meyer, Marshall
The Mikado
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
A Once Charitable Institution
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 Elsewhere
St Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn
St Vincent Hospital
Salick, Bernard
Salick Health Care
Saturday Night Fever
Scalettar, Eric
Schneerson, Menachem Mendel
Scholem, Gershom
Schwartz, Amit
Scott, George .
Scrubs
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.

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