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Forrester Lee, M.D., has examined patients halfway around the world in telemedical consultations, but today he is conducting rounds in the cardiology unit of Yale-New Haven Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital, the primary teaching hospital affiliated with the School of Medicine, is the fifth oldest hospital in the country. All medical and surgical specialties are represented at the hospital, and it is home to some of the foremost advanced clinical centers in the world, from the Newborn Special Care Unit to the Cardiac Nuclear Imaging Laboratory. Each year, the hospital treats around 40,000 inpatients and has nearly 400,000 outpatient visits. The Children’s Hospital at Yale-New Haven provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient pediatric services, a high-risk maternity unit, newborn units, and a rooftop helipad. Yale-New Haven Hospital is the flagship hospital of Yale New Haven Health System, an integrated healthcare delivery system comprising three local systems anchored by major hospitals in New Haven, Bridgeport, and Greenwich, Connecticut. It is among the 50 largest health systems in the nation. The hospital shares many facilities with the School of Medicine, and all full-time faculty in the medical school’s clinical departments–about 600 physicians in more than 100 specialty areas–are part of the Yale Medical Group, a multispecialty, academic group practice that supports the educational and clinical research work of the school and provides the highest level of care to hundreds of thousands of patients each year. |
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 Forrester Lee, who serves as assistant dean for multicultural affairs as well as associate professor of medicine, knows that a doctor’s touch can be both diagnostic and therapeutic. |
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Last modified: Wednesday, 11-Aug-2004 15:00:29 EDT. (PL) |