Monthly Archives: March 2009

Enter My Life: A Man of Quality

By Linda | March 30, 2009

In 1995, before the Children’s Hospital was merged into the five hospital system now called Kaleida Health, we were ranked as the 17th best children’s hospital in the nation. Not bad for a small city and a hospital with few resources except an indomitable spirit. I believe that we were able to maintain such a [...]

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A Woman of Valor—Janet Shucard, PhD: And the Beating Goes On

By Linda | March 26, 2009

Janet Shucard, PhD, a valued faculty member in the school of medicine (so said the dean of her school), serving without salary her funding only through grants she secured through outside agencies, was denied her promotion with tenure last May. The announcement of this event was contained in a terse letter from the President’s office [...]

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A Woman of Valor—Janet Shucard, PhD

By Linda | March 23, 2009

One night last May I received an unexpected phone call. An unfamiliar voice told me her name was Janet Shucard, and that we had met many years ago. I recognized her name because of my long-time collegial association with her husband, Dr. David Shucard, a successful and renowned auditory neurophysiologist. The last time we had [...]

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The Ties That Bind

By Linda | March 19, 2009

Last night more than 100 physicians who practice at the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo gathered and met for the purpose of honoring the now former administrative assistant for the medical staff, Debbie Licata. Prior to our merger into Kaleida Health, we were a “medical staff,” that is a group of physicians, dentists and [...]

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Dana’s and Alesha’s First Babies

By Linda | March 16, 2009

No, it’s not what you think. We are not grandparents yet, and no such occasion on the horizon. But Dana, our daughter, called to tell me that she helped deliver her first baby, in her first year of medical school at UCSF.
How does a first year medical student come to be part of a pregnancy, [...]

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Gifts of Gratitude: The Cycle of Giving

By Linda | March 13, 2009

Over the past 25 years I have met literally tens of thousands of families who have entrusted their children to my care. Surgeons typically have shorter term relationships with their patients. Unlike our primary care colleagues, we consult and may conclude our role with a reassuring diagnostic test or perhaps a curative surgery. But sometimes [...]

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Double Whammy!

By Linda | March 10, 2009

No question about it. This recession/depression (depending whether it is your neighbor or you who has lost a job) is first and foremost on everyone’s mind. So why should I waste my time writing about gender discrimination and pay equity when so many more important issues are facing us today? Let me tell you why.
This [...]

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From Recovering Litigant to Accidental Crusader: Launching www.LindaBrodskyMD.com

By Linda | March 9, 2009

You would think that ending my career as a litigant would lift me up. And it did. For a short while. Then I found myself in a state of mind that I believe is a common, yet heretofore unrecognized problem: post-litigation recovery disorder.
This disorder is characterized by an initial high, which is induced by the [...]

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An Historic Meeting on Martha’s Vineyard, July 24, 2008

By Linda | March 5, 2009

On Martha’s Vineyard, July 24, 2008, 3 women surgeons (and 2 public relations experts as witnesses) met for the first time to share their stories of legal action they were forced to take against their colleagues and their employers, large and powerful hospitals and universities. These three surgeons were brought together by Dr. Lawrence Huntoon, [...]

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Consulting as a Subversive Activity—Part III

By Linda | March 2, 2009

The free exchange of ideas and information is the cornerstone of every institution of higher learning. Harvard University’s seal captures this ideal in one word “Veritas” which means truth. SUNY, the State University of New York has a no less lofty set of ideals on its seal: “To learn, to search, to [...]

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