KevinMD July 13, 2024
“Rules and regulations, who needs them? Throw them out the door.”
— Graham Nash (lyrics), from “Chicago,” sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Business entrepreneur and billionaire Michael B. Kim recently was quoted as saying: “Leadership without ethics is a body without a soul.” Kim donated $25 million to his alma mater, Haverford College in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to start a new Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership. His goal is to renew society’s focus on ethics, even dispatching “ethics missionaries” throughout the world.
A good first place to embed ethics missionaries is health care, where “administrative harm”—the negative impact on patients and health care providers caused by bureaucratic processes, policies, or inefficiencies within the health care system—is pervasive. Examples...