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NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President

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

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership?

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

Administrators at Pepper Spray U Found to Have Violated Medical Professor's Academic Freedom

thumbnail There they, the management of University of California - Davis, go again. The Wilkes and Hoffman Op-Ed Questioning A University Sponsored Ag...

The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Case as Illustrative of Problems with the Leadership of Health Care

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The aggressive actions by University of California-Davis police against unarmed, peaceful student protesters turn out to be the latest illus...

Who Is Really "Bullying?" - Academic Leaders and the Stifling of Critics of Conflicts of Interests

thumbnail Universities, which are supposed to discover and disseminate knowledge, ought to be the foremost defenders of free speech and a free press. ...

American Medical Schools Are "Only In It for the Money" Say Their Faculty

thumbnail We recently discussed the plight of young medical faculty.  It appears that their plight is even worse than we imagined. Last month, an abs...

A Confidentiality Clause or an Oath of Fealty?

thumbnail The advancement of modern scientific medicine depends on the search for and dissemination of truth. Academic medicine, like the rest of acad...