Beyond IDR: Resolving Hospital Disputes and Healing Ailing Organizations Through ITR

In early July of 2006, yet another scandal regarding professional and ethical standards in Israeli hospitals broke out: it was revealed in Haaretz, Israel's most influential newspaper, that a series of experiments in women and the elderly were conducted at several major Israeli hospitals without obtaining patient informed consent and approval by the appropriate authorities. A couple of weeks earlier, the same paper published a cover story in its weekend magazine on allegations of medical malpractice in the treatment given to the wife of a senior physician at the hospital where he works. The incident was followed, he claimed, by a series of cover-ups and attempts to silence discussion of what had happened. He now walks the corridors of his hospital feeling that he must speak up against what he perceives as the systematic cover-up of medical malpractice cases and the absence of any effort to learn from past mistakes.