Innovationships
The relationship between creativity and progress
Medicationships
The relationship between medicine and the process of health
Substantiationships
The relationship between the data and the evidence
Causationships
The relationship between the evidence and the truth
Explanationships
The relationship between the truth and the ability to tell it
Exaggerationships
The relationship between embellishment and the facts
Investigationships
The relationship between the truth and the attempts to seek it
Educationships
The relationship between the truth and learning it
Corporationships
The relationship between business and the public
Compensationships
The relationship between payment and individual actions
Temptationships
The relationship between individual desire and decision making
Reputationships
The relationship between your responsibilities and the perception of your ability to manage them
Expectationships
The relationship between obligations and the perception what should be done to meet them.
Litigationships
The relationship between actions and the ability to defend them.
Devastationships
The relationship between failure and its consequences
Being in the business of medicine requires an exceptional level of awareness of what the concepts of health and care speak to, not only in relation to what we do for a living, but how we and everybody else lives. We care for our health because we care about our health. Health is fundamental to prosperity.
Many would argue that prosperity is fundamental to health. There's undoubtedly truth in both propositions. The point is, that prosperity as a result of others' health care requires a special system of special individuals. In fact, prosperity as a result of medicine ordinarily results from caring for sick people not healthy people-sick care as others have penned it. Nonetheless, health care is a swirling random system where society and individuals pursue healthy lives that will ultimately and inevitably lead to failed health and its least random of all outcomes. Yes, we all die.
As the trajectory toward death bends downward, more medical resources are utilized, meaning quite simply, that more medicine gets paid for and more people get paid. It's inevitable. Yet while this is inevitable, any civilized society expects and requires that people in need of health care have protection from being exploited by those who stand to profit from their vulnerability.
Therefore, a complex system of laws and regulations requires that medical products are proven to be safe enough and effective enough for use and commercialization. The legal and regulatory system also requires that money and other forms of compensation do not interfere with decisions to care for the sick. The pervasiveness of health care, people seeking it, and people, organizations, governments providing and paying for it is intertwined by a complex series of relationships--lets call them "regulationships."
Please join me as I build this site and we make sense of world that often seems irrational, unnecessary and yet altogether inevitable and indispensable. In the meantime, visit the blog for day-to-day thoughts on regulatory and compliance issues as well as personal diversions to reduce the Sisyphean tedium. Oh, by the way, this isn't about "healthcare reform" in the contemporary understanding, though perhaps, the collective revolution in regulation, compliance programs, litigation, and government enforcement is itself a type of very tangible and profound type of reform. More on that as I build this site.
John Murray
Many would argue that prosperity is fundamental to health. There's undoubtedly truth in both propositions. The point is, that prosperity as a result of others' health care requires a special system of special individuals. In fact, prosperity as a result of medicine ordinarily results from caring for sick people not healthy people-sick care as others have penned it. Nonetheless, health care is a swirling random system where society and individuals pursue healthy lives that will ultimately and inevitably lead to failed health and its least random of all outcomes. Yes, we all die.
As the trajectory toward death bends downward, more medical resources are utilized, meaning quite simply, that more medicine gets paid for and more people get paid. It's inevitable. Yet while this is inevitable, any civilized society expects and requires that people in need of health care have protection from being exploited by those who stand to profit from their vulnerability.
Therefore, a complex system of laws and regulations requires that medical products are proven to be safe enough and effective enough for use and commercialization. The legal and regulatory system also requires that money and other forms of compensation do not interfere with decisions to care for the sick. The pervasiveness of health care, people seeking it, and people, organizations, governments providing and paying for it is intertwined by a complex series of relationships--lets call them "regulationships."
Please join me as I build this site and we make sense of world that often seems irrational, unnecessary and yet altogether inevitable and indispensable. In the meantime, visit the blog for day-to-day thoughts on regulatory and compliance issues as well as personal diversions to reduce the Sisyphean tedium. Oh, by the way, this isn't about "healthcare reform" in the contemporary understanding, though perhaps, the collective revolution in regulation, compliance programs, litigation, and government enforcement is itself a type of very tangible and profound type of reform. More on that as I build this site.
John Murray