Patients benefit when we follow protocols. Judgement gets in the way of best practice. Writings of Atul Gawande, MD and others have cemented the importance of protocols in the mind of the physicians and non-physicians alike, enough for us to ask if there is any role at all for clinical expertise. Everyone says you are…

I just saw Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera. I am always blown away by the music and the sets, especially in a project of this magnitude coordinating of hundreds of individuals of talent. Running a hospital is a similar task but childsplay compared with that.  The premise of this incredibly beautiful production,  is that real men…