Hospital administrators are involved in ACO formation, but physicians are being asked to fully commit.
Tag: hospital-centric
We’re not talking Teddy Roosevelt, we’re talking intimidation.
I argue that hospitals, as institutions, are at best amoral. At the same time, they are driven by profit and their executives bear no true downside risk, no risk of going negative in terms of personal liability.
Money. Future. Status. Popularity. The four human interest motivators.
Individuals, physicians in this discussion, are capable of morality and my experience is that most are highly moral. Sure, there are some bad apples, there are in any subset of society.
Growing up in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, it was a common assumption that going to college and getting a job with a large company was the key to financial security.
Does the death of Hostess offers a glimpse into the future of hospital-centric healthcare.
Why should hospitals be run by nonphysicians?
Hungry for sweet junk food? I just checked, and a box of 50 Hostess Twinkies is selling on Amazon for over $95. I haven’t had a Twinkie or a Hostess cupcake for over 20 years, but I’m obviously in the minority as hundreds of thousands of people, or perhaps more, are going crazy over the […]
It will be decades until society swings away from “it takes a village” to “it takes a strong individual” and a high price will be paid in the interim.