As someone who spends way too much time hanging around with cynical lawyers I am not surprised by the current state of affairs. We've spent the last 30yr using

As someone who spends way too much time hanging around with cynical lawyers I am not surprised by the current state of affairs. We've spent the last 30yr using civil case law to heavily incentivize organizations to build process and follow that process even when it's stupid, push decision making higher up and remove the capacity for decisions making down low (like middle manager level) where they can happen fast. It's not that the people want to protect the business at the expense of patients but that the business itself is structured in a way that it's impossible for the people who make it up to do break protocol that says they have to meet X Y and Z criteria when sourcing supplies without it being a fire-able offense.