title: Administrators: masters or servants?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To question the role of medical administrators of mental health services.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The primary allegiance of medical administrators should be to patients and the clinicians who care for them, not to politicians and those who hold the purse strings.
authors.affiliation: Kestrel Unit, Morisset Hospital, Morisset, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shea
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008486:Physician Executives; D010819:Physician's Role / Q000523:psychology; D011057:Politics; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D012944:Social Support