ETHICS TURNAROUND (sort of) by NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTOR What a difference a month makes. When I went on vacation in June the Director of NIMH,...
Primary Care and the HC Renewal RUC-kus
Dr. Richard Baron, a Philadelphia internist who's unusual in that he's both a private-practice clinician and a well-published and -r...
Where No Hospital CEOs are Below Average
In Lake Woebegon, all children are above average. Now it seems that hospital CEOs have moved there. Ventura County, Where No CEO is Below ...
The Hospital CEO as Debt Collector
Last year we noted that the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) required more detailed reporting starting in 2009 by US not-for-profit organi...
Are Ill-Informed Leaders the Cause of Drug Manufacturing Mishaps?
Fundamental Corporate Failures In the last few years, there seems to have been an epidemic of once revered companies suddenly unable to perf...
An Open Question on Moral Authority and Healthcare IT
I recently had the chance to observe a relative's care in a small community hospital. This was a hospital that, in my relative's las...
If Our Honored Military Personnel's Medical Care Was Not Involved, This WSJ Letter Might Have Been Considered Oddly Funny
In the WSJ today, a letter to the editor was published extolling the major strides made by the U.S. military in voice recognition technology...