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Volume 23
Number 
May 1999

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Eric L. Weiss, associate chief of emergency medicine, has organized a course designed to teach medical students how to keep themselves and others healthy while traveling - even if it is someplace a bit less exotic than Papua, New Guinea, where Weiss met these Huli wigmen. Medicine 225 - Travel Medicine and International Health - is "a blending of traditional fields of medicine with many of the psychosocial issues germane to travel, says Weiss.
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COLUMNS 
Chief of Staff

President of the Medical Staff

Fact File: Geriatric Center
  Q&A

People

NEWS
News Summary

Blood Draw Protocol Change

Geriatrics Conference Scheduled in Hawaii

Mammography Service Receives Accreditation

Cystic Fibrosis

Clinical Trials Explore Value of Angiogenesis

Physician Order Entry

Match Day

Financial improvement plan outlined by Van Etten: reductions will total $170 million in various areas

Gregory named Stanford CMO

PAST ISSUES



 

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Financial improvement plan outlined by Van Etten: reductions will total $170 million in various areas


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Gregory named Stanford CMO


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Chart as of
March 31, 1999
March		 Fiscal Yr To Date
3/99		 Last Fiscal
YTD 3/98
Admissions  1,950 12,527 12,321
Total 
Inpatient Days 		 9,267 66,389 67,200
ICU (E2) & NICU 
Patient Days 		 1,013 7,951 8,219
Average 
Length of Stay 		 4.75 5.30 5.45
Emergency 
Visits (outpatient)		 3,125 21,691 21,434

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