Leaving a role is not leaving medicine
I spent eight years as a urologist in rural Washington, two of them as chief of staff at our hospital. I loved my patients. I also saw, up close, what happens when a community can't get specialty care close to…
I spent eight years as a urologist in rural Washington, two of them as chief of staff at our hospital. I loved my patients. I also saw, up close, what happens when a community can’t get specialty care close to home. I watched a woman die of bladder cancer after years of being treated for “recurrent UTIs.” The medicine was never the hard part. Access was.
Later, in a leadership role …
Leaving a role is not leaving medicine
