The ‘Customer’-Physician Relationship (via The Monday Morning Business Ethicist Blog)

A wonderful discussion of Kant in the light of hospital policy. I both recommend you read it and put The Monday Morning Business Ethicist Blog on your favorites. Better yet, subscribe.

James Pilant

Medicine is subtly shifting from an emphasis on what is ideally best for the patient to an environment where hospitals are marketed from survey results and physicians are instructed on how to encourage customers to check the ‘Excellent’ box when rating their care. The danger in primarily viewing a patient as a consumer is that well known adages like ‘the customer knows best’ can gravitate toward motivations based primarily on the profit motive ra … Read More

via The Monday Morning Business Ethicist Blog

Third Way Comments on Foreclosure Fraud Policy in the Post-Ibanez Landscape (via Rortybomb)

Once again another policy recommendation that would free the banks and their mortgage foreclosure lackeys for any responsibility for their acts. It never stops. It never will. A citizen would be found in contempt and thrown in jail for what they have done. A citizen would have been tried in court for selling property they did not own and covicted of fraud. And if a citizen went to court and said we don’t need any legal documents from the court house, we have a computer system, they would be laughed to scorn.

Read Rortybomb and get the full scope of these apologists’ recommendations.

James Pilant

You can tell that the landscape is changing.  Third Way has just released a memo titled Fixing “Foreclosure-gate” which details out a policy solution to the current foreclosure fraud crisis. That the post-Ibenez landscape is so drastically different that groups are mobilizing in a policy way should tell us that things may move in Congress, and we need to be ready. There’s been some fantastic writing on the memo that I’ll point you to - Yves Smith … Read More

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HR and workplace bullying: A revealing online conversation (via Minding the Workplace)

Workplace bullying is not a big deal. That’s a ridiculous statement. I’ve seen workplace bullying and heard stories from others. It is a serious problem.

David Yamada talks about bullying deniers in this current post. Reading it I worked up some outrage. I think it is likely you will too.

James Pilant

In a recent blog article assessing the anti-bullying movement in 2010, I stated that we saw both breakthroughs and backlash during the past year. This post reports an example of the latter. I call to your attention a recent, revealing online exchange about workplace bullying, employers, and human resources that took place on the discussion board of Workforce Management (link here). Several self-identified HR folks suggested that: concerns about w … Read More

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