TY - JOUR ID - 4224 TI - Hospital Professionals as Dual Agents: A Superordinate Identity to Solve Interprofessional Conflicts in Hospitals?; Comment on “Dual Agency in Hospitals: What Strategies Do Managers and Physicians Apply to Reconcile Dilemmas Between Clinical and Economic Considerations?” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Cascón-Pereira, Rosalía AD - Business Management Department, University Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 11 IS - 10 SP - 2343 EP - 2345 KW - Dual Agent KW - Professional Hybrid KW - Identity KW - Healthcare Management KW - Collaborative Models KW - Interprofessional Conflict DO - 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6928 N2 - The inherent conflict between economic and clinical considerations, between professionalism and managerialism, and between being a manager or being a clinician is widely acknowledged in the sociology of professions. The original article by Waitzberg and colleagues focused on how hospital professionals reconcile these conflicting demands. In this commentary, we argue that their assumption that the considered hospital professionals (managers, chief financial officers [CFOs], chief physicians and practising physicians) are dual agents moves on from the unproductive debates of inherent conflicts to envisage possibilities of reconciling economic and clinical considerations. We conclude that the instrumental use of the term dual agent to include “the other” (the manager or the clinician) in a superlative and inclusive category can be considered a reframing strategy to solve inherent interprofessional conflicts and to implement more collaborative models in healthcare. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4224.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4224_bd775c37e65a23acaa498d06963d8232.pdf ER -