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

thumbnail Evidence has been seeping into public view about the extent physicians who sign up to take care of patients as corporate employees give up ...

How the Anechoic Effect Is Institutionalized - A Hospital Policy Against Unsupervised Discussion with the Media

thumbnail In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...

The Perils of Physicians Practicing as Corporate Employees: the Contract Trap

thumbnail A seriously chilling cautionary tale corroborated some of my previously expressed fears about the perils of physicians practicing as corpor...

"You Can't Say That" - Non-Disparagement Clauses and the Anechoic Effect

thumbnail Here is another example of why health care organizations' leaders are different from you and me, and why that may not be a good thing fo...

VCU President Rao's Previous Code of Silence

thumbnail We recently posted about the code of silence imposed by Virginia Commonwealth University President Stephen Rao on his staff.  It turns out ...

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...

Stifling Whistle-Blowers: Old and New Approaches

thumbnail We have frequently discussed the anechoic effect , how it is just not done to discuss certain topics, particularly those related to the adv...