MedCity Life is a city guide for the healthcare industry, providing insights into the social side of the country's most important medical cities. It's a directory of where the people in healthcare are seen and the history of med-tech was written. If you're a newcomer, a business traveler or someone in Greater Cleveland, Research Triangle Park or the Twin Cities and want to socialize with the industry legends and insiders, these are the restaurants, events and places you want to visit.
MedCityNews.com has spent the last two years delivering business, innovation and other industry insights to a national audience of healthcare stakeholders.
But our readers have told us they have other more social needs that weren't being met. That's why today we launch our latest site, MedCityLife.com.
MedCity Life is a city guide for the healthcare industry, providing insights into the social side of the country's most important medical cities. It's a directory of where the people in healthcare are seen and the history of the life sciences was written. MedCity Life also fits the overall goal of MedCity Media Web sites: to cover local medical industries like communities or, better yet, scenes, where industry leaders can be known and in the know.
Our motivation comes from what we've heard from our readers. They know deals are made over dining rooms as often as they are across board rooms. While stakeholders know the business reputation of our medical cities, they are less informed on the work-play-life aspects of these markets. They don't know which bars and events naturally attract their peers.
That's why Akron's Doc's Who Rock event is in there; and why we mention one of Minnesota's main med-tech eateries, The Good Day Cafe; and why we pay tribute to Leonard Medical School in Raleigh, the first black medical school in the Deep South.
So this isn't a comprehensive city guide of every place in the area. Instead, the only venues in MedCity Life are ones we consider natural parts of the local medical industry. Each section in MedCity Life has an editor from that city who researches the venues, events and culture there. The venues are picked by the editors and not by advertisers or other third parties. I feel lucky to have found three people who are excited and passionate about their communities. You can read a message from each editor in their respective MedCity Life sections.
MedCity Life targets business travelers, the local medical industry and anyone who wants to be around the medical industry, including potential employees and future medical students. So the site will help those groups find places to interact with their peers and allow organizations to reach them directly.
And this is also a work in progress. This is MedCity Life's beta year, so to speak, and it will continue to evolve in its venues and mission. There are ways anyone can submit ideas for venues and events.
So I invite you to read and help create MedCity Life, whose motto is simply: Where the medical industry works through play.
Chris Seper, president
MedCity Media
The 12-story Crile Building, named for Clinic co-founder George Washington Crile, houses surgery, labs, radiology, therapy, offices, records, and support services. The building, designed by architect Cesar Pelli, won a National AIA (American Institute of Architects) Honor Award in 1985. Foursquar... [Read more]
The Winking Lizard, located in Cleveland Heights’ Coventry neighborhood, attracts residents and staff from nearby hospitals, and free wifi and daily food and drink specials guarantee a strong med student client base. Wings are $.35 each on Mondays and Tuesdays after 3 p.m. Order the honey mustard wi... [Read more]
At the end of Durham's famous Ninth Street, you'll find Dales Indian Cuisine almost hiding among other international shops. Don't let the generic facade fool you, though. Once inside, you'll be greeted with the smells of warm curry and freshly baked Naan. The beautiful interior Indian decor and t... [Read more]
While the Putnam Collection of sculptures on Case Western’s campus is not universally appreciated, the larger-than-life pieces provide a striking sample of the work of regional artists. Or, if nothing else, they serve as useful landmarks. “Waywood Walls,” by Brinsley Tyrrell, and “Coastlines,” by Da... [Read more]
Located on West 25th Street adjacent to the MetroHealth complex, Maha’s is a haven for MetroHealth employees and rates a spot on University Hospital’s Insider’s Guide to Residency in Cleveland. Maha’s also scored a mention in a listing of the best restaurants in Cleveland on“Just What the Doctor(s) ... [Read more]
Hot Sauce Williams, a tiny barbeque joint just outside the borders of the Medical District, is the lunch spot of choice for Cleveland Clinic and BioEnterprise employees in search of soul food. But Hot Sauce Williams is looking to enter the medical edibles market – the company is working with a Denve... [Read more]
Centrally located between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's health affairs schools and the UNC Health Care System sits The Beach Cafe. From the outside, it looks like any other glassed-in cafeteria, but once you step inside, you see its a hot-spot for the University's nurses, physici... [Read more]
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The Fairmount
The Fairmount stands out among Cleveland bars for its warm atmosphere and creative menu. It also draws much of its business from nearby hospitals and medical schools.
