Pay for Hypocrisy for Health Insurance Executives
A few weeks ago, we discussed the cognitive dissonance produced by huge salary boosts for top executives of health care companies with miserable ethical track records. One of our examples contrasted a long list of ethical violations by US giant health insurance company/ managed care organization WellPoint and the huge raises given its CEO and [...]
Call for papers: Management theory and practices in China
A special issue of International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets China’s unprecedented growth and the opportunities are evident. As China’s economic reform and open door policy are entering the fourth decade, its economy is claimed to have shifted from a central-planned to a primarily market-based one. As a result of the shift, it is [...]
Flecainide 22 years after CAST: safe at last? (For atrial fib, that is)
In 1989 CAST reported increased non-fatal cardiac arrest, arrhythmic mortality, and all cause mortality attributable to the use of flecainide for suppression of ventricular ectopic beats following myocardial infarction. Although that was in the pre-Internet era we had real time cable news coverage available to hype the results. I remember well when the announcement came. [...]
Too Much Vitamin D and Calcium ==> Trouble
I’ve been struggling with a very tough to diagnose blood pressure problem for the past six months. A lot of expensive tests came up with nothing that would explain why my blood pressure was randomly surging well into the danger zone (168/110) and refusing to respond to the medications that had always worked for me [...]
Do patients want to punish?
There is a great debate set forth in the IHI’s Open School discussion of the wrong-side surgery case that occurred at our hospital a few years ago. (I have written about this below, but there are some new postings.) Kimberlee Ziga writes: I, as an RN working in an ICU, have also made mistakes. Thank [...]
