… writing an Inside Higher Education post. Title: LEMONIZING THE UNIVERSITY.
No, not demonizing. Lemonizing. Should be up in a few minutes.
…Ooh. Just checked. It’s up.
… writing an Inside Higher Education post. Title: LEMONIZING THE UNIVERSITY.
No, not demonizing. Lemonizing. Should be up in a few minutes.
…Ooh. Just checked. It’s up.
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August 20th, 2010 at 3:36PM
you write “Universities are profoundly asymmetrically ignorant when it comes to what powerful physician-investors are doing on their faculty. They can do virtually nothing about the lemonization of the university.”
and all I can think of is this story about UCSF ‘s Dr. Susan Desmond Hellmann who is the new chancellor and her various stock holdings in tobacco and pharma
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/30/MN8M1E70B4.DTL
August 20th, 2010 at 3:43PM
cloudminder: Interesting! I’d been aware of the story of her holdings, but didn’t realize they were that extensive, or that potentially compromising. Thanks for sending the link.
August 20th, 2010 at 8:37PM
Medicine has always been a profession characterized by asymmetric knowledge: people go to consult doctors because the doctors have special expertise. But medicine has become now a market with asymmetric knowledge. Aye, there’s the rub.