Posted by Admin | 9:07 AM

For the New Year, it is time to ponder- why is there still no organized outrage over the ongoing incompetent , uncaring , self-interested ,...

Labels: finance, governance, leadership, propaganda

Posted by Admin | 12:26 PM

It has been almost two months since we lasted noted misbehavior by giant global pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc. With little fanfare, howeve...

Labels: anechoic effect, CME, crime, deception, finance, impunity, legal settlements, marketing, Pfizer, Transparency International

Posted by Admin | 2:03 PM

One of the many dramatic stories generated by the destructive Hurricane Sandy illustrated, oddly enough, the influence of big finance on Ame...

Labels: accountability, finance, financialization, NYU Langone Medical Center, patient safety

Posted by Admin | 6:08 PM

Health Care Renewal is about problems with the leadership and governance of health care organizations.  Since the global financial collapse/...

Labels: executive compensation, finance, financialization, generic managers, peer benchmarking, perverse incentives, power elite, superclass

Posted by Admin | 9:07 AM

What has gone wrong with health care now seems to be the same as what has gone wrong with finance, and society at large.  This was not alway...

Labels: anechoic effect, Charles Ferguson, finance, perverse incentives, Predator Nation

Posted by Admin | 11:33 AM

Issues raised by the increasing influence of private equity firms in the direct care of patients were illuminated by a series of articles a...

Labels: Bain Capital, corporate physician, email privacy, finance, HCA, mission-hostile management, perverse incentives

Posted by Admin | 4:47 AM

With desultory interest, I picked up a 1993 novel at the library, The Surgical Arena , by Peter Grant, M.D., “a former navy pilot who became...

Labels: crime, finance, perverse incentives, physicians, wealth creators

Posted by Admin | 1:46 PM

The bad leadership in health care that we frequently discuss now appears to exist in a context of an increasingly corrupt society.  In parti...

Labels: crime, finance, health care corruption, mission-hostile management, perverse incentives