Showing posts with label mission-hostile management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mission-hostile management. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux

There are new, and troubling developments in the long running case of Dan Markingson, the psychiatric patient and research subject who commi...
Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Market Made Us Do It: Increasing Low Level Employees' Health Plan Deductible While Paying Executives Millions

A small news item from the Seattle public radio station, KUOW, provides our latest example of the contrasts between how hired executives and...
The Market Made Us Do It: Increasing Low Level Employees' Health Plan Deductible While Paying Executives Millions Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Another Sign of Resistance? - Doctors Sue Hospital Systems Alleged to Put Money Ahead of Mission

In two recent instances, physician groups have filed lawsuits against hospital systems alleging that managers were directly putting revenue ...
Another Sign of Resistance? - Doctors Sue Hospital Systems Alleged to Put Money Ahead of Mission Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

UnitedHealth CEO Continues to Prosper While His Company's Behavior Appears to Contradict its Mission Statement

Tis spring, the season in the US for legal settlements, government findings, and proxy statements revealing executive compensation.  There...
UnitedHealth CEO Continues to Prosper While His Company's Behavior Appears to Contradict its Mission Statement Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement by "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders"

Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr Howard Brody, John P McGovern Centennial Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Institut...
Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement by "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders" Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation a Charity or a Venture Capital Firm?

We have often discussed how health care organizations now seem prone to diversion from their stated missions, often when money is the object...
Is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation a Charity or a Venture Capital Firm? Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Friday, May 15, 2015

Shut Up and Sell - the Corporate Physician's New Motto?

Evidence has been seeping into public view about the extent physicians who sign up to take care of patients as corporate employees give up ...
Shut Up and Sell - the Corporate Physician's New Motto? Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Pfizer May No Longer be Able to Delay Paying Its Asbestos Claims of Nearly $1 Billion

Pfizer, which claims to be the "world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company," is one step closer to paying a nearly ...
Pfizer May No Longer be Able to Delay Paying Its Asbestos Claims of Nearly $1 Billion Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown