Talk:Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Umm, folks, there is an unrelated Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. We ought to make "Beth Israel" a disambig page.
Who keeps adding the sarcastic remarks back in about BIDMC being "Boston's 'cheap' hospital", and Medical Center's emergency team at Red Sox games being "the closest they'll ever come to treating a player"? It's most definitely not appropriate for this kind of an article. --Markt3 22:08, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- ...not to mention the fact that these are both inaccurate statements. I'm an employee and, trust me, we do treat Sox players at least on occasion, and the hospital, while it might be "cheaper" than MGH, is not "cheap" by American standards. Also, the "cheap" jab probably comes from the fact that it used to be hospital policy to never turn any patients away, no matter how poor. To me that seems "caring and generous", not "cheap".--Caliga10 17:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] St. Elsewhere
Quote from the iMDB: The setting was based on the real Temple Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. The hospital has since merged with another hospital, and is now known as Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.
I do not have a more authoritative source than the iMDB, but I had heard this anecdotally before and I'm curious what source named Boston City Hospital as the inspiration.--Caliga10 02:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Also, the wikipedia article on St. Elsewhere also names BIDMC (and I was not the author of that article nor a contributor).--Caliga10 02:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Whoever wrote the IMDB entry was simply mistaken. "St Elsewhere" was based on a run down "inner city" municipal hopsital (like BCH was), serving mostly poor patients without healh insurance or means to pay for their healthcare (in which case, they would have gone to a more well regarded hospital). Beth Israel Hospital (and now BIDMC) has always been regarded as an acclaimed Harvard-affiliated hospial that served more middle class and was regarded as a highly respected institution, nothing like the instution depicted on the show.
Location-wise, it was set in the South End (as is Boston City -- now BU Medical Center), and the building used in the exterior shots is actually in the South End (in shots taken prior to the demolition of the old Orange Line's elevated tracks, which can be seen in the footage); it is actually a block away from BCH.
Only quotes I could find online are not really very authoritative, but here they are:
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[[2]] --Markt3 23:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
St Elsewhere was also used in a book set at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston (before it merged), called The House Of God, by Samuel Shem (it referred to any community hospital, and was actually used as Mount St. Elsewhere. Shem did his internship at the BI in Boston, before becoming a playwright (he may also be a psychiatrist, but I know him mostly from books and plays he's written).Tamoroso 08:58, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
