title: On being paid not to work for the men of impressive but easy affairs.
abstract: I hide behind my limited presentation time to retreat from offering answers to this dilemma, save to cite one example to illustrate that knowledge workers are not politically hopeless. In response to a severe need, investigators mobilized in the last 5 years to advocate for increased federal funding for research. The succeeded. Many deans, department chairs, and other managers, including the NEJM editors, viewed this project as unlikely to succeed and not worthy of their aggressive promotion. Perhaps this example suggests that knowledge workers should sometimes work for pay to solve their problems. Please see in REFERENCES my comments on certain cited papers. Thank you for your attention and welcome discussion.
authors.affiliation: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Stossel
mesh_terms: D018156:Journalism, Medical; D019359:Knowledge; D008404:Massachusetts; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration