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It reorganizes relentlessly, measures like mad, promotes a heroic form of leadership, favors competition where the need is for cooperation, and pretends that the calling of health care should be managed like a business.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Management in health care should be about dedicated\u003cbr\u003e and continuous care more than interventionist and episodic cures.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This \u003ci\u003eprofessional\u003c\/i\u003e form of organizing is the source of health care's great strength as well as its debilitating weakness. In its administration, as in its operations, it categorizes whatever it can to apply standardized practices whose results can be measured. When the categories fit, this works wonderfully well. The physician diagnoses appendicitis and operates; some administrator ticks the appropriate box and pays. 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