October 23, 1998

Approximately 900 guests enjoyed a special performance by Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and his wife violinist Lucia Lin, at the third annual Schwartz Center dinner Oct. 13 at the Westin Hotel. Putting down his conductor's baton for the evening, Lockhart instead played the piano in accompaniment to Lin's soulful violin performance.

Housed at the MGH, the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers.

Other highlights of the dinner included remarks from Jerome Groopman, MD, chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and author of The Measure of Our Days, which explores the spiritual lives of patients with serious illness; and a video called "That Human Touch," highlighted a program sponsored by the Schwartz Center at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, which aims to enhance residency training through visits to patients' homes.

Kenneth Schwartz was a prominent health care lawyer who died in 1995 of lung cancer. While battling the disease, Schwartz wrote a poignant article, published in the Boston Globe Magazine, detailing his harrowing journey through the health care system and emphasizing the need to nurture the human connection in health care.

Lockhart and Lin