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...

Drinking the Managerialists' Kool-Aid? - Why Did Medical Educators Launch Trials of Increased Sleep Deprivation of Physician Trainees Apparently in Violation of the Nuremberg Code?

Drinking the Managerialists' Kool-Aid? - Why Did Medical Educators Launch Trials of Increased Sleep Deprivation of Physician Trainees Apparently in Violation of the Nuremberg Code?

By Unknown at 12:11 PM

It all seemed so bizarre.  In 2014, with little fanfare, two large trials that imposed longer work hours and sleep deprivation on physician-...

MBA-holding Informatics Fellow's Portfolio: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Plagiarism

MBA-holding Informatics Fellow's Portfolio: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Plagiarism

By Unknown at 8:11 AM

I highlighted the MBA culture at least once before on this site, on April 16, 2010 at "Healthcare IT Corporate Ethics 101: 'A Stra...

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...

Good HIT, Bad HIT, HIMSS And Reckless Technology Advocacy: Will This Hurt President Obama?

Good HIT, Bad HIT, HIMSS And Reckless Technology Advocacy: Will This Hurt President Obama?

By Unknown at 7:13 AM

HIMSS, the Health Information Systems Management Society , is the large vendor trade group representing healthcare IT sellers. At the HIMSS ...