The day after

With increasing frequency, chief executives of hospitals will be faced with making difficult choices in decision making that they recognize may jeopardize their own employment. Knowing that this is apt to occur, a look at what "The Day After" brings when a governing Board has made a decision to replace an incumbent may result in CEOs developing some safeguards to protect themselves. All of the situations described have occurred, though not all of them in the same hospital. In the future the CEOs of hospitals are going to have to take unpopular stands because no other viable alternatives exist. This will be a new and chilling experience.