"I was placed for adoption by my teenage birth parents during a time when closed adoptions were still commonplace. Each year on my adoption day, my adoptive mother would tell me the story of how I came into their lives. The story grew in detail as I aged and was interrupted by more questions. I learned that I was briefly in foster care during a sta

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Healthcare workers are inherently altruistic and self-sacrificing, and business exploits these traits by pushing clinicians to the edge of exhaustion.

This amazing paper, about the history of time organization for doctors, reminds me of the scene in Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep explains to Anne Hathaway where her ugly blue sweater came from. "This way of practicing medicine was selected FOR you..." 🤯🤯🤯

These data are from 2011, but supports the economic argument for creating a humane work environment in healthcare.

Traditionally, physicians have been allergic to unions -- but as the corporate consolidation of healthcare continues, and the profession of medicine continues to be degraded from one of healing to one of ticking checkboxes and rushing through 15 minute visits, unions offer physicians option to seize back some power and control of the medical profes... See more