About privilege

An excellent reminder from Toby Morris about how some people–more and more, it seems–end up where they are. I’m sorry to say, but I see an awful lot of the left-hand plate attitudes from people in leadership positions in hospitals–a belief that they deserve to be where they are, relative to those who’ve led less privileged lives.

An excerpt, one of a sequence….

(With thanks to Vijay Sadasivan, in Salem, India.)

SOURCE: Not Running a Hospital – Read entire story here.

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