Koko the Gorilla needs a checkup. Stanford physicians respond.
[see story]

Web-based course meets CME requirement for pain / end of life care

What do docs need to examine a 300 pound gorilla?

Informatics Center welcomes participation

Jeffrey Shefren discusses staff access

Hospital Board to retain currents staff structure

Kidney program leads national survival rates

Triplicate prescription forms invalid after Jan.1

See chart of
Unapproved Abbreviations

(Thirty-year medical staff member Jerry Shefren, SHC vice president/Ambulatory Care and chief of the General Gynecology Division, discusses the hospital board's resolution on medical staff access. [See related story]).

The Board of Hospital Directors of Stanford Hospital and Clinics has approved a resolution reaffirming SHC's commitment to serve as both a university and community hospital.

The resolution - adopted unanimously Aug. 31 - explicitly addresses longstanding community physician concerns that hospital privileges might end or close for nonfaculty physicians in 2008 - when terms of a July 1, 1968 agreement between Stanford and the City of Palo Alto are set to expire.

Under terms of that 40-year agreement, Stanford purchased the City of Palo Alto's interest in the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital from the city for $1 million and assumed certain Palo Alto Hospital bonds to create a Stanford-owned hospital, now SHC. Members of the Palo Alto Medical Staff of the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital at the time of the agreement were guaranteed staff eligibility at the new Stanford-owned facility for the duration of their professional careers.
[see story]

Medical Staff Meeting
Tuesday - Oct. 26

NEW LOCATION! - LINX Restaurant, Clark Center, 318 Campus Drive West, near Fairchild Auditorium [map]

5:00 to 6:15 p.m.
- Drinks and sit-down buffet
6:15 to 7:00 p.m.
- Business meeting

Guest Speaker:
Leonard Shlain, San francisco surgeon and author, will discuss his new book, SEX, TIME, and POWER, how female sexuality affected the course of human evolution.

Q & A with Martha Marsh, Hospital CEO.
Questions may be sent in advance to Bruce Adornato, Medical Staff President, badornato@stanfordmed.org, or ask questions in the room.

Concise updates from Chief of Staff Larry Shuer, Staff President, Bruce Adornato, and other hospital leadership.