I think that Parkinsons law applies to all form of administration tasks including doctors and hospitals.
"Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".
It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization."
Parkinson noticed that the English ship fleet was decreasing in numbers but the number of administrators administrating the fleet was increasing. This rule can be generalized and said to adhere to all kind of public work. If we do not keep Parkinsons law in check doctors will spend more time at computers fulfilling rules administrators invented instead of doing real critical work helping sick patients. Our tax burden will also increase since the efficiency of the system goes down over time, more tax money needs to be allocated to serve the rules and laws the administrators have invented. Is critical that we limit the number of rules and laws administrators can invent so that we have efficient system that serves there original purpose.
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
Key take away passage from Parkinsons law:
"The accompanying table is derived from Admiralty statistics for 1914 and 1928. The
criticism voiced at the time centered on the comparison between the sharp fall in numbers
of those available for fighting and the sharp rise in those available only for
administration, the creation, it was said, of "a magnificent Navy on land." But that
comparison is not to the present purpose. What we have to note is that the 2,000
Admiralty officials of 1914 had become the 3,569 of 1928; and that this growth was
unrelated to any possible increase in their work. The Navy during that period had
diminished, in point of fact, by a third in men and two-thirds in ships. Nor, from 1922
onwards, was its strength even expected to increase, for its total of ships (unlike its total
of officials) was limited by the Washington Naval Agreement of that year. Yet in these
circumstances we had a 78.45 percent increase in Admiralty officials over a period of
fourteen years; an average increase of 5.6 percent a year on the earlier total"
Parkinson noticed that the English ship fleet was decreasing in numbers but the number of administrators administrating the fleet was increasing. This rule can be generalized and said to adhere to all kind of public work. If we do not keep Parkinsons law in check doctors will spend more time at computers fulfilling rules administrators invented instead of doing real critical work helping sick patients. Our tax burden will also increase since the efficiency of the system goes down over time, more tax money needs to be allocated to serve the rules and laws the administrators have invented. Is critical that we limit the number of rules and laws administrators can invent so that we have efficient system that serves there original purpose.
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
Key take away passage from Parkinsons law: "The accompanying table is derived from Admiralty statistics for 1914 and 1928. The criticism voiced at the time centered on the comparison between the sharp fall in numbers of those available for fighting and the sharp rise in those available only for administration, the creation, it was said, of "a magnificent Navy on land." But that comparison is not to the present purpose. What we have to note is that the 2,000 Admiralty officials of 1914 had become the 3,569 of 1928; and that this growth was unrelated to any possible increase in their work. The Navy during that period had diminished, in point of fact, by a third in men and two-thirds in ships. Nor, from 1922 onwards, was its strength even expected to increase, for its total of ships (unlike its total of officials) was limited by the Washington Naval Agreement of that year. Yet in these circumstances we had a 78.45 percent increase in Admiralty officials over a period of fourteen years; an average increase of 5.6 percent a year on the earlier total"
https://www.economist.com/news/1955/11/19/parkinsons-law http://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law