tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post6113052462989959771..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: The CEO as False MessiahRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-20027065381340820522012-05-15T00:33:52.116-04:002012-05-15T00:33:52.116-04:0022 UPMC employees top $1 million
Pittsburgh Busi...22 UPMC employees top $1 million <br /><br />Pittsburgh Business Times by Kris B. Mamula, Reporter <br /><br />Date: Monday, May 14, 2012, 2:57pm EDT<br /><br /><br />UPMC has 23 employees at the hospital giant who make more than $1 million in total compensation, according to tax reports released May 11.<br /><br />University of Pittsburgh Medical Center President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff is the Afraidhttp://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2012/05/14/23-upmc-employees-top-1-million.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-92184946622293451242012-05-14T08:49:36.364-04:002012-05-14T08:49:36.364-04:00His main point is that the "messiahs" ar...<i>His main point is that the "messiahs" are just people playing at that role, supported by public relations, if not propaganda and disinformation</i><br /><br />In healthcare they're usually playing the role without true expertise.<br /><br />In 1999 in an essay "<a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/informaticsmd/www1.htm" rel="nofollow">Unqualified InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-90100029369576614392012-05-14T07:28:46.305-04:002012-05-14T07:28:46.305-04:00My attorney wife and I had Mother’s Day lunch with...My attorney wife and I had Mother’s Day lunch with a woman PhD, who had worked for a major aerospace company, and her friend whose husband had been a senior executive with a local corporation. Vassar was mentioned in passing.<br /><br />Some how we got on the subject of management and I brought up Snakes in Suits. They all related to the premise. I then brought up the saga of a local company withSteve Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02457363632413213801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-15788978261869481402012-05-14T06:36:00.856-04:002012-05-14T06:36:00.856-04:00In Pittsburgh, the hospital CEOs have repeatedly t...In Pittsburgh, the hospital CEOs have repeatedly taken from the needy and defenseless patients to enrich themselves. This is a modern day extension of the concept "filthy rich", a phrase that had its origins in Pittsburgh several centuries ago.<br /><br />Recent reports in the Pittsburgh newspapers on the compensation packages of its hospital' CEOs are consistent with the chronic Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-14460280420060730722012-05-14T00:32:22.571-04:002012-05-14T00:32:22.571-04:00There is a picture of one wanna be in the LATimes:...There is a picture of one wanna be in the LATimes: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pittsburgh-revival-20120513,0,6270898.storyCouldn't place it in NYChttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pittsburgh-revival-20120513,0,6270898.storynoreply@blogger.com