Agency Upgrades D-H Accreditation
Lebanon — An accreditation agency that monitors the quality of hospital residency programs for training doctors just out of medical school has upgraded the status of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, which sponsors 47 such programs, and of the hospital’s training program in surgery. The actions by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education upgraded the ratings of the hospital and its third largest residency program just...
Accrediting Agency Warns Hitchcock
Lebanon — An independent accreditation organization for medical education has issued warnings to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and its surgery-training program for new doctors after receiving a complaint from a resident who was dismissed from that program. That development punctuated a five-year-old controversy that put a temporary roadblock in the career path of an aspiring doctor and raised questions about the policies and...
The Life of a Resident Doctor
Lebanon — During Kevin Koo’s hardest day as a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he sat in a conference room with the family of a critically ill patient as they debated which, if any, invasive medical steps should be taken to keep their loved one alive through the coming night. “In that moment I had to call on all of the lessons about the patient’s disease, about the patient’s physiology, about the patient’s prognosis,...
