Physician Leadership: The Lone Ranger vs. the Team Captain
Your leadership style goes a long way towards determining your team’s results. As a physician leader, your style organizes the way your team functions and creates your team member’s experience of “playing” on your team.
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Employed Physicians Top Four Gripes
Medscape published an article this week titled, “4 Top Complaints of Employed Doctors” and it was a very interesting read. Turns out the things employed physicians complain about are basically that they are employees! Go Figure …
Let me lay out these employed physicians gripes for you with a little detail so you will see what I mean. I will finish this article with a solid way to address all of them. These gripes are basically a cry for effective Physician Leadership.
Although the numbers are not exact, these days about half of doctors are employed physicians, either by a hospital, a medical group or a larger healthcare system. That number is rising pretty rapidly as the industry consolidates to grab the bonus pools soon available to groups large enough to qualify as ACO’s.
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Physician Burnout Training Video [5 min]
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Physician Burnout and the risk of CHD
A new research paper published in the journal “Psychosomatic Medicine” in 2012 is showing a solid link between Burnout and the risk of CHD for the first time. This new information proves a connection that has been suspected for decades and adds to the list of ways burnout can actually kill.
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Learn Physician Burnout Pathophysiology and 2 Main Prevention Methods in this brief video
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Physician Wellness – Let’s abandon the struggle and just let doctors do what they do best.
In response to the chronic epidemic of physician burnout, there is a lot of talk about Physician Wellness these days. Hospitals and groups are being encouraged to establish a physician wellness committee and do something, anything, for the doctors. These efforts almost always fail because of a blind spot buried in the fabric of our medical education system.
In this article, let me show you
- Why these committees often sputter and die a quick, silent death
- Why the concept of Physician Wellness is always such a frustrating struggle
- Where to focus our energy instead to create the most good for the most doctors
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Patient Satisfaction and Pay For Performance in Healthcare ( P4P ) – three things all doctors need to know.
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Physician Burnout Podcast Audio – Moving from Doctor to Entrepreneur
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