english: The first one was that the common theme of the discussions we had were hospital budgets and cost-cutting, and the second thing, which really bothered me, actually, was that several of the colleagues I met, former friends from medical school, who I knew to be some of the smartest, most motivated, engaged and passionate people I'd ever met, many of them had turned cynical, disengaged, or had distanced themselves from hospital management.
non_english: Het eerste was het onderwerp van onze discussies: ziekenhuisbudgetten en kostenbesparingen. Het tweede dat me stoorde, was dat mijn collega's, oude studievrienden, die ik kende als de slimste, meest gemotiveerde en gepassioneerde mensen die ik ooit ontmoette, veelal cynisch en niet-betrokken waren, of afstand hadden genomen van het management.