Gde zapravo idem

Marcus Delaney

@delslabs

5Items

4Likes

These are the places that define my workday radius and my idea of a functioning health system. Heavy on the Illinois Medical District, a few outliers where the data and the outcomes speak for themselves. Some are where we send the tubes, some are where we send the patients, some are where I go on a rare day off to remember why any of this exists. Call it my personal coverage map: eight institutions, one museum, thousands of beds, millions of tests, and more box scores on the waiting room TVs than anyone needs.

See all 5 items Follow Marcus DelaneyOpen in app

The list

Showing 1–5 of 5

Gde zapravo idem — 5 items
Name	Type	Affiliation	Main focus	Good for	Hours note	Address	City	My take
1University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System	Academic medical center hospital	University of Illinois Chicago	Tertiary care with strong research and resident training footprint	Patients who need subspecialists plus teaching-hospital depth in one place	Hospital and ED open 24/7; outpatient clinics on set schedules	1740 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60612	Chicago	UIC is the steady workhorse across the street. Not flashy, but the volume and acuity numbers are real, and the trainees keep the questions sharp.
2International Museum of Surgical Science	Medical history museum	International College of Surgeons	History of surgery and medicine, with instruments, art, and exhibits	Remembering how far we’ve come from trephination and ether days	Open daily with daytime hours; check current schedule before you go	1524 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610	Chicago	Nice reset button. One lap through the galleries and your worst LIS outage feels minor compared to pre-antibiotic mortality curves.
3Northwestern Memorial Hospital	Academic medical center hospital	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	High-end subspecialty care and large referral center for the region	Tertiary referrals, transplant, oncology, and complex surgical cases	Hospital and ED open 24/7; heavy daytime clinic volume	251 E Huron St, Chicago, IL 60611	Chicago	Streeterville giant. When a case blows past what most places see in a year, it often finds its way here, and the outcome stats show it.
4University of Chicago Medicine	Academic medical center hospital	The University of Chicago	Research-heavy tertiary and quaternary care on the South Side	Oncology, transplant, complex IM and subspecialty consults	Hospital and ED 24/7; clinics and labs on academic schedules	5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637	Chicago	Hyde Park’s data factory. If there’s a trial or protocol for it, odds are they’ve got an accrual target and a Kaplan–Meier curve in progress.
5Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center	Community teaching hospital	Advocate Health	Broad community care with strong emergency, OB, and specialty services	North Side patients who need real depth without leaving their neighborhood	Hospital and ED open 24/7; outpatient offices with extended hours	836 W Wellington Ave, Chicago, IL 60657	Chicago	Lake View anchor. Not in my daily orbit, but when labs show up from here, they look tight and the clinical notes tell a coherent story.

Conversation

All 2 posts

Join the conversation