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his team Case Study #2: Equal workload? tation d the le the med Jeff Victoria Parker, Progra m Director Department of Health Policy and Courtesy Nnugement Boston University School of Public Health) a huge sigh, Marianna deleted the latest email from one of the of her fellow clinic reorganization committee. Picking up her phone and dialing her fiancé, she mulled over the events of the last 2 a growing sense of unease. gled hat ec- nd "Hey," she started, "you won't ton committee is doing now. I've told them over and over again that our wedding and honeymoon fall in the last 3 weeks before the report is due, and lI've repeatedly offered to get started on different parts of the ng ed g: report, but they just keep telling me to ‘chill out,' and that there's still peny of time to get our work done. In fact, I just got an email suggest- we go back and rerun a whole bunch of the predicted patient analyses that I know are already complete. Sure, maybe the rest l that ha ve plenty of time, but not me! I'm worried that 'm go

Do you think this committee could have prevented this conflict by getting the work done by the deadline? If so how ? If not , why not?

What could the committee chair have done early in the committee's life to ensure that its members were in agreement with its work plan ?
Should the committee include Mariana's name on its report? Why or why not?