retired doc on how critical thinking has evaporated as more suits run hospitals and clinics:
. . . medicine has become more and more corporate and the business school belief that one does not need know a business to run it is increasingly applied to medical practice . The business-speak jargon now echoes through the hospitals and clinics and we talk about vision statements and leveraging this and that and the suits with MBAs are no longer minor distractions but are in control.
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I once worked for one of the Big Clinics of national fame which prided itself on providing “Healthcare like no other in the world” and being ahead in everything. It was certainly ahead in this trend. About 10 years ago a book labeled “—– Clinic Management Handbook” was circulated. Upon opening it one found that it was a copy of Dilbert.
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