5 thoughts on “Every Consultant Hired By A Hospital”
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
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Oh, Doug, this is priceless. I have a great amount of personal animus toward “consultants”. I loathe them. From experience. Here’s a quote I use freely when anyone I know is sniffing around a consultant. “A consultant is someone who will take your watch off your wrist and tell you what time it is.”
I like that.
I think the people who can’t quite make that consulting firm all become drug reps. I kicked them out over a decade ago because I knew what they did, they came and talk to me for a while very condescending, and then they went outside to their car with their manager and made fun of me. I always thought it odd that those types thought they were so much smarter than me. They made a whole lot more money than I did, they were more attractive, they dressed better, and they worked half the hours I did. I guess they were smarter than me.
Funny stuff! And sadly, so true. Just this week I heard that a Forbes ranking showed my state, North Carolina, has the highest-cost medical care in the U.S. The night before I heard that, one of my retired physician colleagues told me that the CEO of one of our biggest hospitals was paid $19 million. I recall a line from a Paul Newman movie, “Good guys always finish on the bottom. Only bastards and cream rise to the top.”
My grandfather’s take on the same theme was: “Just as cream rises to the top, so does scum.”