News roundup May 31-June 4

Physician compensation during the COVID-19 pandemic remained largely unchanged, even as just about everything else across the healthcare landscape shifted, a new report shows.

Every time you make a decision to delegate and involve staff, you free up time to focus on other job duties, build self-esteem among staff, grow new leaders, and send a clear message that teamwork is valued. However, you need to be careful what and how you delegate.

Form follows function. This phrase, coined by the man considered by many to be America’s first modern architect, Louis Sullivan, reminded his colleagues that they needed to keep in mind the intended function of a building as the key principle for its design. The same is true for peer review. Although there is no one “right” structure for peer review, dif­ferent structures definitely impact how well peer review functions.

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