(07-22-2022, 09:08 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:What you're implying that business people can't run a business that they aren't subject matter experts in.Not at all that conclusion is an assumption you have made.
My perspective is that you are better off being cared for by and under the guidance of a person who exclusively has your health and wellbeing prioritised over profit, rather than someone who is going to be paid a bonus for cutting costs or increasing margin.
Most health managers / executives are not health care workers, they are business people. I know the top person at three different Melb hospitals, through my R&D work on additive printing for replacement hips and cranial caps for cancer or acute injuries, and not one is a doctor or Matron, they are all professional business types mostly that have come out of bureaucracy although one is a former industrial pharmacy executive.
I don't know a Matron on the planet who would accept cutting nursing staffing given the option, they do not do that job for decades first to get were they get by being focussed on finances, and I can't say I ever meet a nurse that got into the gig for the cash!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

