tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post1104023357325043456..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Private Equity, Obfuscatory Advertising, and Making Health Care a Commodity: Lessons from Cerberus Capital ManagementRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-56760784047400639122012-08-10T22:49:43.382-04:002012-08-10T22:49:43.382-04:00Dr. De la Torre quit his job as a heart surgeon be...Dr. De la Torre quit his job as a heart surgeon because he left a mitral valve holder inside a parient's heart not once, but twice. He is not the star surgeon that he advertises himself to be. He runs Steward through a small network of unqualified but empowered individuals who terrorize accomplished administrators, physicians and mid level physician extenders. Their blind loyalty to him stemsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-25644529791005093962012-08-09T01:08:09.268-04:002012-08-09T01:08:09.268-04:00Re: In deference to those who love the individual ...<i>Re: In deference to those who love the individual hospital, you have to look back at America and the trends in industries that have gone from being art to science, to being commodities. Health care is becoming a commodity. The car industry started off as an art, people hand-shaping the bodies, hand-building the engines. As it became a commodity and was all about making cars accessible to InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-67821372279754206232012-08-09T01:07:01.725-04:002012-08-09T01:07:01.725-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-49635574198531512752012-08-05T19:04:39.566-04:002012-08-05T19:04:39.566-04:00Thank you for leading me to your 2011 post. I obv...Thank you for leading me to your 2011 post. I obviously missed that and all of the due diligence that you performed.PortiaChalifouxhttps://twitter.com/PortiaChalifouxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-13621498980771194862012-08-04T14:56:46.637-04:002012-08-04T14:56:46.637-04:00Note that we posted about Dr De la Torre, and how ...Note that we posted about Dr De la Torre, and how his Cardiovascular Institute did not turn out as promised here:<br />http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-steward-health-care-will-superbowl.htmlRoy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-33322108759426739562012-08-04T08:13:42.388-04:002012-08-04T08:13:42.388-04:00Pot meet kettle
Interesting that you quote Paul L...Pot meet kettle<br /><br />Interesting that you quote Paul Levy. You do know that he hired De La Torre to run his cardiac surgery program at Beth Israel Deaconess? And that Levy and De La Torre put together an administrative skim off the top for executives program to enhance cardiac service line revenue, yes?<br /><br />In 2007, I blogged about that and got zero response:<br /><br />http://PortiaChalifouxhttps://twitter.com/PortiaChalifouxnoreply@blogger.com