Released on = September 23, 2006, 10:20 am

Press Release Author = Boston Orthopaedic Spine

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Twenty-seven NWH physicians were recently named in the
February 2006
Boston Magazine \"Top Doctors\" list, which was based on a survey
conducted by Best Doctors, a Boston company founded in 1989 by two
Harvard Medical School-affiliated physicians.

Press Release Body = Each year, Best Doctors polls the medical profession, asking
\"If you
or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, whom would you
choose?\" Only physicians identified by their peers in previous years
as the \"best doctors\" receive the \"Best Doctors in America\" survey.
Following are the physicians affiliated with Newton-Wellesley who
were included in this list:

Frank X. Pedlow, Jr. MD, Orthopaedic Surgery; Lawrence S. Friedman, MD,
Gastroenterology; John L.Ohman Jr. MD,
Allergy and Immunology; Mark Drapkin, MD, Michael Lew, MD and David
Wyler, MD, Infectious Diseases; Henry M. Yager, MD, Nephrology; Ross
Berkowitz, MD, Keith Isaacson, MD, Elaine Metcalf, MD, Ob/Gyn; Joel
Bass, MD, Pediatrics; W. Barry Gault, MD, Psychiatry; Don Goldenberg,
MD, Rheumatology; John P. Long, MD; and Brian Saltzman, MD, Urology.

Following are physicians affiliated with Newton-Wellesley who made
the Boston Magazine list but aren\'t accepting new patients:

Eugene Aron, MD, and Thomas Beatty, MD, Ob/Gyn; Esther Israel, MD,
and Harland Winter, MD, Pediatric Gastroenterology; Joshua Boyce, MD,
Pediatric Pulmonology; Jonathan Benjamin, MD, Shelly Bernstein, MD,
and Maurice E. Keenan, MD, General Pediatrics; Michael S. Jellinek,
MD, Psychiatry; Steven L. Miller, MD, Radiology; Daniel Patrick
Doody, MD, and Daniel Patrick Ryan, MD, Surgery.

\"All of our esteemed physicians make enormous contributions to
Newton-Wellesley Hospital each and every day and continuously work
hard, along with our nurses and staff, to ensure high quality care is
given to every patient who walks through our doors,\" said Michael
Jellinek, MD, President of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. \"It is always
an honor to be recognized for clinical excellence.\"

Boston Orthopaedic Spine is the private practice of Dr. Frank X Pedlow Jr, dedicated
to the evaluation and management of surgical disorders of the adult cervical,
thoracic and lumbar spine.

Dr. Pedlow specializes in the treatment of cervical disc herniations and stenosis;
lumbar disc herniations, stenosis, and spondylolishesis; spinal trauma, tumors and
infections. The goal of Boston Orthopaedic Spine is to offer its patients the
highest quality, most technically advanced, patient-centered care by combining the
individualized and personal attention of a private practice with the expertise and
experience of an academic teaching service.


Web Site = http://www.bostonorthospine.com

Contact Details = Nancy Nicosia
2014 Washington Street
Newton , 02462
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617-726-9503
nnicosia@partners.org
http://www.bostonorthospine.com