Being a CEO isn’t that different from being a clinician

Physician
September 11, 2017

As a pediatrician, I have always known the value of my presence. At least, that is how I remember feeling during long nights in the hospital taking care of sick children, in the clinic or in any situation that required pediatric expertise. “How can I help?” I would always ask as I entered an exam room. Answering questions from wide-eyed parents about their foreign and frightening new bundle of joy, …

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Being a CEO isn’t that different from being a clinician

Forget burnout. Let’s address physician dissatisfaction.

Physician
January 28, 2017

Burnout is a tragedy.  It terminates careers, friendships, marriages and sometimes lives, prematurely.  It threatens the well-being of individuals, families, patients, organizations and our society. The current media focus on the crisis of physician burnout is appropriate and timely, but the industry itself needs a reality check.  While burnout is experienced by the individual, it is the manifestation of a dysfunctional environment that only we as physicians and leaders in …

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Forget burnout. Let’s address physician dissatisfaction.

How I am leading doctors through change

Physician
May 26, 2016

Here’s a leadership challenge: Get a group of highly independent, intelligent individuals to come together to build a boat.  But imagine the blueprint for that boat is vague and untested.  Now imagine that this boat must be built in choppy, progressively inhospitable waters, while said individuals are frantically treading water to stay afloat.  Convincing these smart people that there’s a problem isn’t the issue.  Convincing them to abandon their desperate …

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How I am leading doctors through change