NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President

Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...

NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President 2015-05-18T03:54:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

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

American Board of Internal Medicine Quietly Discloses Some Conflicts of Interest

We recently discussed the American Board of Internal Medicine's exceedingly weak conflict of interest policy.  This came to light after...

American Board of Internal Medicine Quietly Discloses Some Conflicts of Interest 2015-05-08T01:24:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More Hospices Pretending Patients are Terminally Ill

In the US, we have been engaged in an experiment involving handing over an ever increasing proportion of direct patient care to for-profit c...

More Hospices Pretending Patients are Terminally Ill 2012-09-12T10:56:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

From Serving the Poor to Paying Executives Millions - Carolinas HealthCare System

A striking contrast between a large health care organization's historic mission and its current practices appeared in a series published...

From Serving the Poor to Paying Executives Millions - Carolinas HealthCare System 2012-05-04T09:26:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

How the Anechoic Effect May Be Generated - The Chairman of a Hospital Board Buys a Newspaper

We have often noted that stories about problems with the leadership and governance of health care tend to be anechoic . That is, they tend t...

How the Anechoic Effect May Be Generated - The Chairman of a Hospital Board Buys a Newspaper 2012-04-18T09:21:00-07:00 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