The lethargic colleague
In his latest blog, Zack Oakey, MD, ponders why it seems that physicians need their own explicit medium to combat social sabotage, especially in academic practice among residents and fellows where monetary compensation is "already dilute" as he phrases it.
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Much has changed in my life since high school. I have grown a beard, learned languages, and become a father.
Despite having undergone what some consider being the sophistication of life, I have retained many of the basic instincts and lessons from the late 1990s. The peaks and valleys of my film citation repertoire and music library date from that period and within them are messages that touch on themes such as unity, shared ethics, mutual aid, etc.
One of the jewels of my musical crown is the band Dropkick Murphys (est. 1995), whose track “Boys on the Docks” often repeats the adage “united we stand, divided we fall.”
Much in punk rock is made of the joint efforts of peoples to withstand various influences: “the system,” women, police, sidewalks, politicians, and so on. The unity of young people is nowhere bettered promoted than in the midriff of a darkened room under a loud speaker.
My emotional foundation about what methods we employ to solve mutual problems is built on those punk rock-and, I admit, roughly shaped-influences. But we need not look to the Sex Pistols or Joey Ramone for a foundation in organization ethics.
Most of Winston’s rebellion in Orwell’s “1984” is tribal, humanity-favoring-written in the backcloth of individual rights that are considered a fundamental element of just governance.1
A more direct and formal description can be found in what Freeman has termed the stakeholder theory of organizational management.2
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