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A Sewage-Laden Cruise Ship, Burning Aircraft Batteries, Neo-Nazi Factory Security - Will Jaw Dropping Cases Prompt the Public to Demand Better Leadership?
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12:57 PM
The dysfunction of modern health care likely arises from larger trends within the economy and the society. We frequently discuss how poor l...
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Pfizer's Pfourteenth Settlement - a Small Reminder of Continuing Impunity
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9:14 AM
Well, that did not take long. Less than a month after its last legal settlements were announced , Pfizer had to settle again. The Details o...
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Question for the New Year: Why is There Next to No Reaction to the Gilded Age of Health Care?
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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 ,...
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Dartmouth's Governance and Wall Street
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1:18 PM
While the money spent on health care in the US continues to increase, care becomes less accessible and its quality becomes more dubious. Mo...
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You heard it here first
Wall Street Journal Defends Hired WellPoint Executives' Lack of Accountability to the Company's Owners
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1:29 PM
The lack of accountability of the hired managers (or executives or bureaucrats) of health care organizations came into sharper focus thanks ...
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Some of WellPoint's Owners (Stockholders) Allege Their Hired Executives Hid Political Contributions
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1:41 PM
We have frequently had reason to question the actions of WellPoint, the second largest for-profit health insurance company/ managed care org...
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A Case Demonstrating Links Between Poor Governance, Conflicts of Interest, and Excess Executive Compensation at a Hospital System
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9:01 AM
The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California first appeared on our radar in 2011 for not only giving an improbably large sev...
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They Think We are "Imbeciles," and They Run Health Care Organizations
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12:32 PM
Arrogance seems to fuel many of the problems with health care leadership that we discuss, particularly hostility to the mission , often driv...
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What the Pfizer (V)? - Few Consequences of a Long History of Bad Behavior
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11:43 AM
The recent in-depth investigation by Fortune reporters of 10 years of dysfunctional leadership at Pfizer , the "world's largest re...
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On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
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