Hospitals Bristol

Harvard University Medical School/Hoffman-LaRoche.. 10.0 Massachusetts General Hospital/Bristol-Myers Squibb. 37.0 University of California at San Diego/Ciba Ceigy...20.0... 

ROBERTA GOODALL Cholinesterase Investigation Unit, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, North Bristol Trust, The Uewi,s Laboraiory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol. UK... 

Debra Henn holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. She completed a post-doctoral specialty residency in drug information at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Plainsboro New Jersey. Dr. Henn is currently employed as a Medical Information Manager at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in Wilmington, Delaware. 

By 1991, 89 percent of sales and 92 percent of profits came from its broad portfolio of healthcare products, including prescription drugs (in which it was the leader in women s health care), OTC drugs (in which its Advil and Anacin were best-sellers), nutritional products (in which its infant formula preparations ranked just behind those of Abbott and Bristol-Myers in market share), and hospital supply goods. The remaining 11 percent of sales and 8 percent of profits still derived from food. ... 

For information in this and the next paragraph of text, see Gambardella, Science and Innovation, pp. 101-102. For Chesebrough-Ponds hospital supply see Wall Street Journal, Sept. 18, 1986. For Bristol-Myers animal health, see Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2, 1987. For A. H. Robbins, see Wall Street Journal, Feb. 17, 1987, and Jan. 26, 1988. For percentages, see Stopford, ed., Directory of Multinationals (1988), p. 72. The figures are undated but end with the year 1987. 

The author is grateful to Bristol-Myers Laboratories, Quebec for their hospitality during the preparation of this chapter. 

Anne-Fran oise Aubry is an Associate Director in Bioanalytical and Discovery Analytical Sciences at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, NJ. She holds a doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Dijon, France and a Ph.D. from University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. She also completed postdoctoral studies at St. Jude Research Hospital in Tennessee and McGill University in Canada. 

Weick, K. and Sutcliffe, K.M. (2003) Hospitals as cultures of entrapment A re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary. California Management Review, 45(2), 73-84. 

The air from a crowded room, however, was much contaminated the goodness was 1-31, that of fresh air being 1 25 and that of air breathed till it just extinguished a candle 1 43. Other observers found air from Bristol Hot-well water, and that expelled from sea water by boiling, rather better than common air Becket found that 3 vols. of nitric oxide added to 5 vols. of common air over water left 5 vols. of gas. Sigaud de la Fond independently found that air from crowded rooms, hospitals, etc., differed little, if at all, in goodness from fresh air. 

Although Allison s operation represented a novel idea, and he was among the first to embrace the notion of the relationship to hernia and reflux, the procedure failed to endure, and enthusiasm for the reflux thesis might have waned considerably had it not been for the more or less simultaneous and independent achievements in the Kantonsspital, Basel, and the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol by Rudolf Nissen and Ronald Belsey, respectively. 

It is a pleasure to express my appreciation to the US National Institutes of Health for the award of a scholarship which permitted me to spend 12 months over a period of 3 years at the Fogarty Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The facilities and intellectual environment in Bethesda enabled me to give this volume a good start. I also wish to thank my colleagues in the Department of Biochemistry at Bristol University for giving me continued hospitality and facilities. 

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