Disruptive behavior
From a Today′s Hospitalist interview (my emphasis): The Joint Commission has a zero tolerance standard for behavior that is considered disruptive. The definition of bad behavior is broad and open to interpretation by the institution, but disruptive behavior is increasingly defined by the beholder. If it is perceived as disruptive and hostile, then we have [...]
Supply and demand
The Times reports: Count on Rocco Landesman to stir the pot. Speaking at a conference about new play development at Arena Stage in Washington on Thursday, Mr. Landesman, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, addressed the problem of struggling theaters. “You can either increase demand or decrease supply,” he said. “Demand is [...]
Castro now ‘a soldier in the battle of ideas’
New Straits Times 2010/09/13 THE green military overall is back. A voice mellowed by age and speeches shorter than those that took hours before still warn the world of the threat of nuclear war. Cuban leader Fidel Castro recently spoke from the same steps of the University of Havana where, 61 years ago, he stirred [...]
More Hospitals Settle, But Not for Much
In late February, there have been several notable legal settlements made by more or less prominent hospitals, discussed in rough order of size. United Regional Health Care System Per the Cypress Times, The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with United Regional Health Care System of Wichita Falls, Texas, that [...]
Enabled by the Revolving Door, Corporatistic US Trade Policy Seems to Put US Drug Companies Ahead of Global Public Health
We just discussed how leaders of big health care corporations with histories of ethical and legal missteps want to export our supposedly “wonderful technology, wonderful approaches” to the rest of the world.  A story on the Huffington Post showed how big health care corporations, partnering with the US government, have already been doing that with not very [...]
