KevinMD April 2, 2025
Doctor, if you have recently had occasion to be granted a visit with upper hospital management in the plush executive suite, most surely it was you who stood out quite conspicuously. Being greeted, hopefully politely, by one of the administrative secretaries, you were asked to be seated and wait along with others—consultants, lower-level management, salesmen, business associates, insurance executives, and maybe even golf buddies. Notable was that you, the physician, were the only one not appearing in tonsorial splendor, groomed to the hilt, well-rested, and adorned in a three-piece suit. You were the person blurry-eyed from the night shift or up all night with an emergency, dressed in a white coat with pockets full of papers and baggy greens, maybe...