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Hospitals have hospital administrators at the top, which are not doctors. Law firms do have lawyers on top, but they are basically like small consulting shops.
by satyrnein 6y ago
Hospitals have hospital administrators at the top, which are not doctors. Law firms do have lawyers on top, but they are basically like small consulting shops. (Small tech consulting shops similarly have tech people on top.) In most companies, though, legal is just a department like any other.
- marcosdumay 6y ago> Hospitals have hospital administrators at the top I really don't understand how this does not create an endless stream of problems (or, quite likely, it does, but they are well hidden). But keep in mind that the power of hospital administrators is severely restricted compared to software development managers (what is really reasonable, by the way). It's a general rule for all kinds of engineering that one can not deliver quality if the management isn't composed of good engineers. You can deliver all kinds of stuff, but not quality.
- satyrnein 6y agoAndy Jassy ran AWS without being an engineer. I'm sure there are downsides, but I think many engineers are biased against managers in a way that doesn't match the reality.
- agumonkey 6y agoA french documentary about hospital failure mentioned this, from what I recall majority of administrators is a somehow recent thing and people firmly believe that it's a main factor in the degradation of the field.
- avereveard 6y agobut they aren't in control of operations. imagine management asking surgeons to cut corners and water down disinfectants, the lawsuit would be _legendary_