We would never think to abolish medical schools, thinking we could improve the quality of care simply by threatening to fire doctors whose patients die.
Traditionally, many of the city's public hospitals have had contracts with medical schools allowing the schools to hire and fire doctors, and imposing a buffer between the corporation and its employees.
For decades, many of the city's public hospitals have had contracts with medical schools allowing the schools to hire and fire doctors, imposing a buffer between the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation and thousands of employees.
While the estimates underlying this are admittedly rough, and while we are not advocating firing any doctors, it suggests that taking personality measurement seriously could open new doors that would greatly improve the provision of services.
So why would they fire the doctors who work there?
He had recently been fired from Doctors Without Borders, witnesses said, and had returned to the office with a gun late on Thursday afternoon.
Hunt is under fire from doctors in a campaign that collates examples of such patients to illustrate what they call "the Hunt effect".
As an American gunship unleashed burst after burst of cannon fire on Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, medical staff inside the building frantically tried to alert military headquarters in Kabul and Washington DC.
Along the way, they closed down girls' schools and fired female doctors and murdered homosexuals and staged public amputations and generally gave a bad name to the Prophet in whose name they claimed to act.
Elected mayors, fire chiefs, doctors and even tea boys have all been locked up".The number of detentions doubled last year, and torture and sexual harassment of prisoners is on the rise," says Raci Bilici, acting chairman of the south-eastern chapter of Turkey's Human Rights Association.
