Posted by Admin | 11:46 AM

The old saying is that nothing is certain except death and taxes.  In health care, the other near certainty seems to be that compensation fo...

Labels: academic medical centers, executive compensation, Hospitals, logical fallacies

Posted by Admin | 11:35 AM

A recent article in a a relatively obscure medical ethics journal dared to approach some important aspects of medical ethics that medical et...

Labels: academic medical centers, anechoic effect, conflicts of interest, institutional conflicts of interest, medical ethics, medical schools, professionalism

Posted by Admin | 12:34 PM

Last month we discussed a recent, large scale study of physician burnout, and wondered whether it would finally inspire some discourse abou...

Labels: academic freedom, academic medical centers, anechoic effect, burnout, deception, free speech, health care ethics, leadership, medical schools, mission-hostile management, physicians, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 1:02 PM

While primary care falters in the US, those who teach it seem to feel increasingly poverty stricken.  Now it appears that one reason for thi...

Labels: academic medical centers, accountability, deception, Hospitals, mission-hostile management, post-graduate medical education, secrecy, transparency

Posted by Admin | 9:18 AM

It remains fashionable in academic medicine to tolerate, if not celebrate conflicts of interest as necessary to support the "collaborat...

Labels: academic medical centers, boards of trustees, bribery, conflicts of interest, golden parachutes, imperial CEO, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, You heard it here first

Posted by Admin | 12:30 PM

We have often discussed the anechoic effect , how cases involving or discussions of the topics we address on Health Care Renewal , the conce...

Labels: academic medical centers, anechoic effect, leadership

Posted by Admin | 11:41 AM

A little while ago, we discussed questions raised by the pre-existing financial relationships of Dr Laurie Glimcher, the new incoming Dean ...

Labels: academic medical centers, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, conflicts of interest, medical schools, mission-hostile management, Weill Cornell Medical College