The majority of these fellow physicians, who had seen similar situations unfold themselves in Corporate Hospitals, may extend this disease to government hospitals in coming days. But intriguingly I also received several emails from people on the corporate side of health care, who almost expressed apology for the scenario I described, and attempted to make me understand their perspective as administrators and MBAs. Seeing these types of messages from the very people physicians are so wary of, made me somewhat proud.
I was proud because of the fact that medicine is still such a respected and relatively autonomous (and I use the word relatively) profession, that the business folk feel they need to reach out so quickly. Even if it’s an attempt to defend the indefensible. But I just think health care is very different from every other industry and not as amenable to pure business thinking.…
