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Cheered by news from Stanford Hospital CEO Martha Marsh that "we're busy in the hospital, revenues are up 7 percent from last year," medical staff members then heard lively but sobering news on the California and national political scene from prominent public radio commentator and professor Michael Krasny.

Krasny was the featured speaker at the Dec. 4 Semi-Annual Medical Staff Meeting that in addition to Marsh's brief state of the hospital update included a social gathering followed by the traditional biennial passing of the gavel from the outgoing staff president to his successor. This year the gavel, including written instructions on how to use it, was handed off by Ray Gaeta, a faculty anesthesiologist and pain management specialist, to Welch Road neurologist Bruce Adornato. more