Sachin H Jain, President and CEO, Board Director at SCAN Health Plan, shared on LinkedIn:
“The greatest risk in healthcare leadership isn’t fraud or failure.
It’s something quieter: ethical erosion.
Not a single bad act, but a series of small, well-intentioned compromises that, over time, take us further from our values.
Further from ourselves.
A recent Fierce Healthcare piece by Paige Minemyer captured this well:
Ethical drift happens when we stop asking hard questions about who benefits, who’s harmed, and what we’ve normalized in the name of ‘business as usual.’
It looks like this:
- Approving one questionable denial because ‘everyone does it. ‘
- Hiding behind toxic positivity that insists everything we do ‘improves lives.’
- Rewarding performance without reflection.
None of these a dramatic moments.
But together, they define culture.
Leadership isn’t just about outcomes.
It’s about doing the right thing even when it isn’t in our best short-term interest.
We need to build pauses into our pace.
Moments to ask: Are we still who we said we’d be?
As you reflect on this, are you still who you said you’d be?”
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