Posted by Admin | 10:42 AM

Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...

Labels: academic freedom, accountability, boards of trustees, executive compensation, free speech, New York University, transparency

Posted by Admin | 9:09 AM

The University of Miami has provided some vivid examples of the contrast between the power and privileges of the leaders of large health car...

Labels: anechoic effect, Donna Shalala, executive life style, free speech, medical schools, mission-hostile management, University of Miami

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 | 12:52 PM

The original impetus to set up Health Care Renewal was increasing evidence of external threats to physicians' professional values.  So ...

Labels: core values, free speech, medical schools, mission hostile user experience, professionalism, UC-Davis

Posted by Admin | 8:59 AM

SELF INFLICTED DAMAGE The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in the news again for bad public relations: worse than bad, actually – a...

Labels: Allen Frances, American Psychiatric Association, Bernard Carroll, DSM-5, free speech, SLAPP, Suzy Chapman

Posted by Admin | 12:20 PM

The aggressive actions by University of California-Davis police against unarmed, peaceful student protesters turn out to be the latest illus...

Labels: academic freedom, executive compensation, free speech, intimidation, Linda Katehi, mission-hostile management, UC-Davis, You heard it here first