Flechazo Amoroso

A large university medical school and teaching hospital has two institutions,a state school and a state-supported hospital. There was hostility andcompetition between the hospital and the medicalschool as only one topofficial was common—the provost.The most complicated and unstructured part of the hospital and medicalschool was the financial part. The hospital workers were the civil workersothey had a civil salary scale, but the medical workers had no salary scale. Sothe medical workers frequently used grant money to supplement the salaryscale.Dr. Robert Uric, head of rental unit, wasmost popular by the hospitalworkers with whom he worked. Although he was a source of wonder and hisstaffs’ works were sincerely appreciated by the patients and their families,but other faculty membersfound Uric to be a constant source of embarrassment and discomfort.Dr. Uric was a successful researcher in kidney transplant. He had severalfederal grants from the National Institutes of Health topursue research onkidney transplantation. The characteristic of his research was that, he beganby solving small, individual problems for specific patients and thengeneralizing and publishing thesolutions.When Uric invented a new thing and offered it to the NIH, NIH officialsrefused to accept his innovation. Then Uric offered it to a large nurserysupply manufacturer, and the firm named it flowerLife. The story broke inthe newspaper, so Uric and his peculiarities were no longer a private joke.As a result the faculty became concerned about the reputation of thehospital, and Uric had beendismissed from his position.Dr. George Conrad, who was the in charge of the dialysis unit, was the idleperson to assume the responsibility for the rental unit by the executivecommittee.But with thedisposition of Dr. Uric, the structured work of the rental unitwas broken down. Though the executive committee expected a period of adjustment, but the disruption of the routine exceeds anything the...