Through the Eyes of a Combat Medic

Beyond The Bounds By Mary Brignano Presents The Exciting Dynamic And Unlikely Story Of How The Architects Of Upmc The University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center Created A Remarkably Successful Global Health Enterprise And In So Doing Transformed The Economic Landscape Of Pittsburgh And Western Pennsylvania. Spanning 35 Years Beyond The Bounds Details The Ways In Which Two Improbable Heroes And Their Colleagues Defied Tradition Convention And The Dominant Hospital And Health Care Provider Paradigm To Grow Faster And More Robustly Than Any Other Medical Center Or Nonprofit Health System In This Country. Brignano Writes In The Book'S Introduction ''Upmc Was Created Out Of The University Of Pittsburgh. The Two Have Risen Together In National And International Prestige ...Upmc'S Founders Followed One Core Principle: 'Research And Clinical Success Are Synergistic And Interdependent. What Is Good For One Is Good For Both.''' Those Founders Were Dr. Thomas Detre A Survivor Of The Holocaust And The Communist Takeover Of His Hungarian Homeland And Jeffrey A. Romoff The Social Anthropologist Who Came To The University With Detre In 1973 And Who Remains Upmc'S President And Ceo. Beautifully Photographed And Clearly Written Beyond The Bounds Tells The Story Of How These Two Visionary And Passionate Protagonists Adventurers Futurists And Outsiders Followed Their Own Dreams In Forging Alliances And Building Partnerships In Ways Never Previously Attempted. Their Ingenuity And Entrepreneurship Bring To Mind The Towering Achievements Of 19Th Century Pittsburgh Industrialists Carnegie And Frick Which Took Place In The Same City But In A Very Dissimilar Time And A Vastly Different Industry. Not Only Were Detre And Romoff The Co-Authors Of This Modern-Day Groundbreaking Saga Unique But So Also Was The Environment In Which They Found Themselves. Pittsburgh The Financial Cultural