How A Liver Unit Failed Summary

Poorly Structured Team
Throughout the article “How a Liver Unit Failed” by Alan Zarembo and Charles Ornstein, there are many examples that prove the members of UCI Medical Center transplant floor, lacked the characteristics necessary to be a successful high-performance team.
The first characteristic of a high-performance team is to have a clear and elevating goals. Goals have to be clear especially because individuals do not want to be a part of anything that is not going to be important to them and a good use of their time. The staff in the liver transplant unit seemed to forget what their goals were. Their goal was to cure people of liver disease by performing transplants, but the major problem was that they were refusing actual liver donations. In addition, there was nothing wrong with these livers that were being donated because other medical facilities used the donated livers instead.
Many of these physicians had lied to their patients about livers not being available when the facility was not accepting perfectly good ones, which other medical facilities were using. There were events that doctors were clashing against each other as well, which calls for an extremely poor working environment; there is no teamwork at all. There is so much drama between the doctors that not enough transplants are being done to save lives, which makes the doctors severely incompetent to perform their duties.
Similarly as stated above, collaborative climate does not exist at UCI Medical Center. The doctors are constantly clashing with one another and they do not want to work as a team. There is more arguing going on than transplants being done. They have such a bad reputation, that other doctors do not want to work there and be a part of that bad