Say it ain’t so Bristol-Meyers Squibb

When I read about the $515 million fine Bristol-Meyers Squibb paid for illegal marketing of its antipsychotic drug Abilify I felt like the ...

The Roar on the Other Side of Silence

The September 27th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine features a short article by Dr. Katherine Treadway that lucidly describes t...

The Moral Ethos of U.S. Health Care

An excellent article by Gregg Bloche in the September 20th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine examines the current moral ethos of...

Using Organizational Structures to Achieve Disgrace and Profit

A must-read New York Times article about the nursing home industry demonstrates how shrewd design of organizational structures can create u...

Searching for a Secular Health Care Ethic

Recent articles in the Boston Globe about the effort to create a “church for those who reject religion” and the New York Times asking “Is ...

Ethically Admirable Health Care Competition

We in the U.S. pride ourselves on religious diversity, but in truth we have a national religion – market economics. We worship markets with ...

Ethics and Elbow Grease

Organizational ethics isn’t just about hospitals, group practices and health plans.The larger system within which health care occurs can use...

A Jewish fan of Catholic Organizational Ethics

On a research visit in 1999 to the Columbus, Ohio branch of Holy Cross Health System, we were told by the sister who led the organization th...

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Approach to Organizational Ethics

Since 1996 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC), a not-for-profit health insurance company serving 1,000,000 members in Massachusetts, New Ham...