Would a Hippocratic Oath for health care executives make a difference?
Would a Hippocratic Oath for health care executives make a difference? Probably not. Nonetheless, there is ample evidence that the organizational cultures of too many hospitals are not conducive to physician well-being.
In a provocative blog posted on May 2, 2019, emergency medicine physician Mark Borden indicated a Hippocratic Oath was urgently needed for administrators.
Dr. Borden wrote: “Physician employment was, and is, obviously an intrinsically flawed structure …
