Leadership is hell bent on micro managing day to day tasks to the extreme. While there are numerous tiers of qualified people in positions of authority throughout the institution, senior leadership will regularly overturn or undermine their decisions. You can just about expect to be told which hand to hold your tissue with if you sneeze around here, and the order will probably come from your boss’ boss’ boss.
Knee jerk (over)reactions by senior leaders are also a near daily occurrence. Expect hastily constructed, semi-legible missives that are based upon shaky-at-best information and typically very closely followed by sheepish retractions and apologies.
Perhaps the most significant issue facing Sturdy is its physician-pandering culture. The hospital is host to several doctors who still practice medicine the same way they did when Alf was the top show on TV and free AOL discs came in the mail on a regular basis. Many a good clinician have left Sturdy in disgust after seeing these fossils continuously get away with practicing outdated, substandard medicine and dodging any and all consequences. When this issue is brought up, which it frequently is, the typical response from senior leadership is shoulder shrugging and offering reassurance that Dr. Dinosaur is probably retiring in just a few more years. The doctors are the ones who are really in charge of this hospital, and they can pretty much do whatever they want and get away with it as long as they have “MD” after their names (even if everyone knows that what they choose to do is wrong and detrimental to patient outcomes.)
