How Managerialists Turned Housestaff Training into a Zero-Sum Game: the Continuing Saga of the FIRST and iCompare Studies

How Managerialists Turned Housestaff Training into a Zero-Sum Game: the Continuing Saga of the FIRST and iCompare Studies

By Unknown at 12:27 PM

A ongoing controversy about two controlled trials (FIRST and iCompare) meant to test the bizarre hypothesis that sleep depriving medical hou...

Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ

Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ

By Unknown at 12:39 PM

The important conflicts of interest generated when academic health care leaders also serve on the boards of directors of for-profit health ...

Non-Profit Hospital Executive Salaries Continue to Defy Gravity and Logic

Non-Profit Hospital Executive Salaries Continue to Defy Gravity and Logic

By Unknown at 11:46 AM

The old saying is that nothing is certain except death and taxes.  In health care, the other near certainty seems to be that compensation fo...

The Parts of Professionalism We Are Not Supposed to Discuss

The Parts of Professionalism We Are Not Supposed to Discuss

By Unknown at 11:35 AM

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?

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership?

By Unknown at 12:34 PM

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