It will be decades until society swings back away from “it takes a village” to “it takes a strong individual” and the price we’ll pay in the interim will eventually be rationing, death counseling, and other warm and fuzzy attributes of a so-called communal society. Heck, this makes its opposite, the so-called “greed” of rugged individualists, seem timid in comparison.
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Join Mark as he waxes philosophical about the death of colleges and the future of medical education.
Yes. Sure. Of course. How many times each day do you say one of those words
People, not institutions, are capable of morality. At best, institutions are amoral. At worst, they are immoral.
“I deserve it” is a meme infecting society . . .
Sometimes it’s not in your personal or business interest to say yes. Instead, you need to say no even though your programming makes it difficult.
“I deserve it” is a meme infecting society . . . it affects medical group thinking, too.
Unfortunately, this attitude impacts medical group thinking as well. As in “we deserve the exclusive contract,” or “I deserve her referrals.”
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.