A Very Real Taboo: Toxic Culture Threatens Everyone

Toxic cultures are diseases that feed from anything they touch, making productive work impossible. Such poisonous conditions harm any job environment but are especially devastating when they invade healthcare where patients’ lives are in jeopardy. A veteran provider, Dr. Gia Baquiran Sison has seen the good and bad in the medical field. She knows the harm a brutal culture can create. The occupational health expert is a consultant to the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region and Makati Medical Center in the Philippines. “The world of medicine may sound ‘glamorous,’ but on its opposite side there is much toxicity in…...