The Breaking of the Surgeons

<p>Healthcare leaders and administrators have so profoundly insulated themselves from the nuances and challenges of patient care and may have so little familiarity with the clinical enterprise that they have created a fantasy football league equivalent that they manage as if it were reality.</p><p> In this healthcare fantasy football league virtual or imaginary problems are defined processes and solutions crafted based on magical data</p><p>There are ever fewer folks among the increasingly crowded cliques in the luxury boxes who have any idea what is actually going on. </p><p>The impact on surgeons the quality and responsiveness of healthcare and the future of medicine is reaching devastating proportions. And somehow this is not considered a problem.</p>