• Applauding accomplishment: MGHer recognized as 2002 YMCA Black Achiever
  As hundreds of MGH employees gathered in the O'Keeffe Auditorium to hear the words of Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, at a special Martin Luther King Day celebration Jan. 25, they also had the opportunity to recognize the achievements of a special member of the hospital family. Samuel Roberts, coordinator for MGH Volunteer Services, was named a 2002 YMCA Black Achiever.

• Furthering emergency preparedness: New trauma and disaster training manual under way
  The issue of disaster preparedness has taken on heightened significance, both throughout the United States and at the MGH, in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Thanks to the efforts of Susan Briggs, MD, of MGH Surgery, and the opportunities afforded by a recent grant, the Harvard Medical International (HMI) Trauma and Disaster Institute is developing a new training manual — one with significant potential to carry hospital and community emergency preparedness into the future.

• Gift to support MGH pain program
  The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma L.P. of Stamford, Conn., recently gave the MGH a significant gift to support a range of programs aimed at improving the understanding and management of the most common symptom of illness and injury — pain.

• Boston's best: MGH physicians lauded
  A number of MGH physicians have been honored as "Top Doctors" in the February issue of Boston Magazine. The magazine conducted a survey of more than 100 area physicians and members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, asking them to name peers whom they would recommend to treat their own loved ones.

• A different kind of health care: Presentation highlights healing through the arts
  Sophisticated technological equipment, a vast assortment of medications and complex procedures all have become hallmarks of the modern health care world. The founders of "Waking Dreams and Warrior Women," however, focused on a different tool of healing in their presentation in the MGH Ether Dome Jan. 23 — the arts.

• A glimpse of MGH purchasing practices of the past
  Paperwork at the MGH was less cumbersome in simpler times. All of the hospital's purchases for the first quarter of 1826 are meticulously listed on a single sheet of 15- by 19-inch lined paper, carefully preserved in the MGH Archives and Special Collections.

• Lending a helping hand
  MGH employees received some eager help Feb. 1 as students from East Boston High School visited the hospital for the City of Boston's annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day.

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