Better Late than Never - JAMA Article Advocates Banning Academic Medical Leaders from Serving on Many Health Care Corporate Boards

Will wonders never cease? Eight years after we started posting about this issue, it has made it into a large circulation medical journal, al...

Better Late than Never - JAMA Article Advocates Banning Academic Medical Leaders from Serving on Many Health Care Corporate Boards 2015-05-10T21:32:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Finally, An Article in a Large Circulation Medical Journal with Systematic Data about Leaders of Academic Medicine Conflicted by their Service on Health Care Corporate Boards

Background - a New Species of Conflict of Interest Since 2006 , we have posted repeatedly about  what was then a new species of severe co...

Finally, An Article in a Large Circulation Medical Journal with Systematic Data about Leaders of Academic Medicine Conflicted by their Service on Health Care Corporate Boards 2015-05-10T20:44:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Non-Profit Hospital Executive Salaries Continue to Defy Gravity and Logic

The old saying is that nothing is certain except death and taxes.  In health care, the other near certainty seems to be that compensation fo...

Non-Profit Hospital Executive Salaries Continue to Defy Gravity and Logic 2013-02-13T11:46:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Parts of Professionalism We Are Not Supposed to Discuss

A recent article in a a relatively obscure medical ethics journal dared to approach some important aspects of medical ethics that medical et...

The Parts of Professionalism We Are Not Supposed to Discuss 2012-12-06T11:35:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership?

Last month we discussed a recent, large scale study of physician burnout, and wondered whether it would finally inspire some discourse abou...

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership? 2012-10-03T12:34:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Case of the Vanishing Graduate Medical Education Funds

While primary care falters in the US, those who teach it seem to feel increasingly poverty stricken.  Now it appears that one reason for thi...

The Case of the Vanishing Graduate Medical Education Funds 2012-05-21T13:02:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Another Cautionary Tale about Conflicts of Interest: the CEO's Stretch Limousine, Golden Parachute, and Slush Fund

It remains fashionable in academic medicine to tolerate, if not celebrate conflicts of interest as necessary to support the "collaborat...

Another Cautionary Tale about Conflicts of Interest: the CEO's Stretch Limousine, Golden Parachute, and Slush Fund 2012-03-27T09:18:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown