Until I find the time to publish my own thoughts on working in the healthcare industry, I will be using my blogs to highlight and summarize some interesting articles that I've read: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/13/opinion/gawande-doctors/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7 Bottomline of the article: Doctors may be specialized and therefore very qualified in their fields, but they need to put their egos aside and work together as a team rather than in silos. A single patient that goes to the hospital may be seen by several different doctors and health practitioners and therefore it is important for doctors to work together as a team in the best interest of the patient. Another helpful tactic would be to introduce well-designed checklists for doctors so that they can avoid costly mistakes or memory lapses.

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Why are consultants and other tenured folks always so opinionated? Is it because they fear that a lack of strong view might give others the opportunity to walk all over their plans?

Don't forget. Remember what is important to succeed in any profession. My mind has been restless trying to figure out what I want to do in life. I am in IT and management consulting right now and I believe that I do not enjoy work as much as I should. I feel like my passion lies somewhere else within the healthcare industry and that I need to find it and pursue the career that would bring me the most satisfaction. Add to that the desire of making good money and being in a somewhat glamorous setting and I find myself asking the question of what is it that I really should be doing. I have narrowed it down to two choices:

1. Masters in Biomedical Engineering
Pros: 1 yr program that draws upon my past education and skills, good chances of getting in the program, can satiate my desire to be in medical and technical fields simultaneously, good work-life balance after the job
Cons: Not as lucrative as Investment banking, will not provide direct patient/customer contact, still have to deal with corporate bureacracy.

2. Physician Assistant
Pros: provides direct customer/patient contact, good work-life balance, respectable job, less corporate bureacracy, emotionally fulfilling
Cons: Requires several months of hands-on medical experience which I lack, not much use of math or engineering skills, disease filled work environment

The health care elephant in the room: Medicare -- DailyFinance

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I should just make this my quotes blog:

Funny Quote of the Day - Groucho Marx - "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running."

How about if we used food to run a few machines, instead of giving it battery?

An ethics lecture is always interesting. There are so many different ways of justifying two completely contrasting arguments. How does one realize what is right and wrong; what is moral and what is immoral? Can you compare the outcomes using monetary values?
Should prisoners and people living in the third world countries be allowed to be used as lab-rats? Should you protect the baby or the mother? Should abortion be legal?

I like how the chapter on ethics ended with the conclusion that it might be important for a business to follow the law; but it is even more important for a company to follow good ethics. Kantian, Utilitarian or a mixture of both. You decide, but be sure to stay out of trouble!