Indeed, we are at a point where academic medicine should be a little more pessimistic about what the world has in store for it, and it might be beneficial to discuss solutions for an industry that probably is the most undermanaged industry of modern times.
Disaster can hit very quickly.
Other presentations have discussed abyssmal services or lack of respected services and failure to use technology-which all relate to the quality management culture and the ability to drive it within your businesses. Obviously, there is a need to temper idealism and seek internal reform. It must be acknowledged that there is some merit to the criticism levied at consultants and their accountability. Yet, a rather vacuous, directionless, uninspired industry leadership gave this consulting market an opportunity to tell it want it wanted to hear. Today's issues in this industry are not typical business-school issues.