The University of Miami has provided some vivid examples of the contrast between the power and privileges of the leaders of large health car...
Showing posts with label medical schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical schools. Show all posts
At University of Miami, Faculty Without Confidence in their Hired Managers Afraid to Identify Themselves
The University of Miami has provided some vivid examples of the contrast between the power and privileges of the leaders of large health car...
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...
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...
Using a "Professionalism" Initiative as a Speech Code to Punish Students' Criticisms of Administrative Authority?
The original impetus to set up Health Care Renewal was increasing evidence of external threats to physicians' professional values. So ...
If a Medical School is Just Part of the "Biomedical Industry," Who Will Do Medical Education?
A little while ago, we discussed questions raised by the pre-existing financial relationships of Dr Laurie Glimcher, the new incoming Dean ...
"We're Only In It for the Money" - Big Businesses Pretending to be Medical Schools Discussed in Main-Stream Medical Journal
This is a first, the contention that medical schools are only in it for the money has appeared in a prestigious, main-line, large-circulatio...
Dr. Silverstein and Dr. Poses in WSJ: "The Literature Is Hardly Pristine"
I have considered Dr. Roy Poses' Dec. 14, 2010 post " The Lancet Emphasizes the Threats to the Academic Medical Mission " (wit...
Why Would Directors of Health Care Corporations Push for Bigger Pensions for Academic Administrators?
We recently posted about 36 well-paid top executives in the University of California system, including leaders of medical schools, academic...
