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This is a quick one. I was tipped off about this article recently. It is two years old so I am sure it is worse now but the Harvard Business Review found that there are 10 administrators for every doctor. Ten!
What do we need these people for? They say we need them to make sure all the regulations and mandates are done correctly? That’s horseshit. They are not needed! They are being paid ridiculous amounts of money and costing patients to go bankrupt and doctors to quit practicing medicine. When are we going to say enough is enough?
By the way, the picture above is either actually horseshit or a quality metric committee meeting in session. You have to guess which.
Horrifying but is anyone really surprised? Our system is unlikely to improve until our society values something besides money.
I’d actually be quite embarrassed if someone saw me step into a quality metric committee meeting.