July 23, 1999

Some of Boston's best known medical talent joined the Boston Pops July 9 as Partners HealthCare honored its physicians with a special concert. Approximately 1,000 physicians and their guests from the MGH, BWH, The North Shore Medical Center, Spaulding, McLean, Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., Faulkner Hospital and Newton-Wellesley Hospital attended the celebration at Symphony Hall. The evening had a variety of baseball-related activities to go along with the All-Star Baseball Game in Boston, including the Pops playing a rendition of John Phillip Souza's "National Game March," with Partners physicians providing "crack of the bat" sound effects on stage. The audience also was treated to a reading of "Casey at the Bat" by Dennis Ausiello, MD, chief of the MGH Department of Medicine and a former Harvard baseball catcher, and Pat O'Gara, MD, director of Clinical Cardiology at BWH, who was captain of Yale's 1974 baseball team.

From left, Andy Whittemore, MD, of BWH, Debra Weinstein, MD, of Partners, Tom Lee, MD, of PCHI, Paula Johnson, MD, of BWH, John Fallon, MD, of NSMC, Tom Durant, MD, of MGH, Jim Dineen, MD, of MGH, and Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart.