In yet another example of the blogosphere being overrun by fringe elements, not, here's a blog by Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Yes, that's right. That Paul Levy, pictured here, who runs that famous institution, has been using Blogger since October, 2006. Not familiar with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center? Here's a bit about it in their own words:

A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is renowned for excellence in patient care, biomedical research, teaching and community service. Located in the heart of Boston's medical community, it hosts nearly three quarters of a million patient visits annually in and around Boston.

Famous, traditional, highly advanced... and thanks to Paul Levy's courage and vision, very conversational, very online, very community aware. Most every other health care provider in town has expressed some level of disdain at one time or another about Mr. Levy's blog effort. One of them, when asked about it, is reported to have said, "What's a blog?" That person must have been distracted... probably fresh out of leeches that day.