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by wolverine876 820 days ago
> it is not necessarily in hospital admins' best interest for all the ER patients to be seen

It's still a systemic problem, where admins' interests are not aligned with the health and experiences of patients.

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No doubt.

I think that admins' interests not aligning with that of patients/consumers or with those of professionals/practitioners is making millions of people sad in a lot of other fields in addition to medicine.

Ben Hunt has written some great essays about this nebulous concept. His phrases "industrially necessary" and "raccoon" come to mind.

Is there a general solution? Dunno. But I suspect crafting even more regulation would be kinda like trying to make Wikipedia better by firing all the content experts and making all the admin-type people write all the words. It wouldn't result in a very good end product.

I seem do my best work when I am left to my own devices and my contact with admin is minimal.

I don't know much about it, but if hear one more person talk about how hopeless problem X is ... . It's a contagion.