I've worked at a hospital, and that video really confused me. The tasks that "administrators" covered seemed quite reasonable. The first example ("contingencie

I've worked at a hospital, and that video really confused me. The tasks that "administrators" covered seemed quite reasonable. The first example ("contingencies") rang in my ears due the pandemic. There was no specific department for this, but having a pandemic plan was the responsibility of administrators. Leaving it to the staff would have been a horror show. Another "contingency" from my experience is having a facilities department that maintained separate power generation. If you were on the the operating table and the power went down, what would you expect? That the surgeon would take care of it? Another example is "finance". Do you think this function shouldn't be performed? The hospital wouldn't function. Or do you think we should pay doctors (rather than the "scourage" of administrators) to do it? Imagine how expensive health care would be then. Same with "purchasing", "technical", etc. Are you suggesting we have less qualified doctors and nurses perform these tasks at a higher price or that the hospital just dosen't purchase stuff? "Administrative bloat", as you call it, seems more a result of increasing standards we have for organizations. Everything we expect has to be someone's job to build, fix, monitor, report, etc. We can get rid of administrators, but the final result is significantly worse outcomes.