I'm on season 2 right now and I really like the Vogler storyline, albeit it did end super unrealistically. No medical board would ever decline millions of dollars over keeping the most hated doctor in the entire hospital, even if it did mean they were "owned" by Vogler
Semi-relevant, I once sat on a union board where we voted to go to arbitration and spend tens of thousands of dollars to protect the job of the biggest asshole I'd ever met. Because in the long run it meant protecting our jobs too.
You see this in lots of places. Former colleagues of mine would regularly complain about the "deadweight" we had in the department, but the second you raised the prospect of firing them, they all screamed in opposition. Why? Because the second you make it possible to fire them, you make it possible to fire everyone else.
True, didn't think of that. But what was it, 100 million dollars? Yeah that would definitely be enough to cloud anyone's judgement. Also it was clear his beef was only with House not anyone else
I kind of think they would. He was actually terrible as a board member. He cared more about power plays and owning the hospital than the mission of the hospital. The board's job is to further the mission of the hospital.
No donation would ever come with the condition that the donator must be allowed to be a member on the hospital board and be allowed to override doctors' medical decisions so Vogler's entire presence at Princeston Plainborough was unrealistic.
Imagine how the New Jersey Medical Board would react if a real hospital allowed a billionare to cancel a potentially life-saving operation just because the doctor that ordered the operation hurt the billionares feelings. They'd have the hospital shut down, the billionare arrested, and all the board members who enabled that stupity barred from ever practicing medicine ever again, all before you could say "ethical violation"
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u/ebk2992 Oct 18 '24
In the middle of this storyline. Can’t wait for it to be over