The best doctors of Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic (Weekend Rounds)

A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week:

The 50 best Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic doctors. Ever. The history of a hospital is written primarily by the actions of its doctors. Here are our choices for the 50 best doctors in the history of Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic.

5 healthcare social media tips that break the mold for pharma, med tech. With Facebook’s recently implemented “wall policy” rules and minding the U.S. Food and Drug administration regulations on advertising, pharmaceutical companies are treading carefully.

Cleveland Clinic’s 5th-highest-paid employees in ’10 hasn’t worked for hospital since July ’09. Despite abruptly leaving the Clinic amidst cloudy circumstances and vague explanations in July 2009, former Chief Operating Officer David Strand was the Clinic’s fifth-highest paid employee in 2010 at $1.3 million. What’s more, he received the largest raise, 18 percent, of any of the Clinic’s employees who were paid more than $1 million last year. (And Cleveland Clinic Millionaire’s Club adds 2 in 2010, grows to 15 members.)

Fishchell stent development co. raises $17 million in series B round. Svelte Medical Systems, a medical device company started by serial entrepreneurs Robert Fischell and his sons David and Tim, has raised $17 million in a series B Round of financing — just under half of its $37 million target to develop its first- and second-generation stents for cardiac surgery.

A brief history of medical technology. A social media strategy firm has created a useful graphic that charts a brief history of medical technology, from the invention of the stethoscope in 1816 to the development of the commercial hybrid PET/MRI scanner to more recent advances.