Heard this week

"I think leadership is something that’s learned and acquired, and there’s probably some inherited components to great leadership if you look at leadership across history. But I think one of the things we realize in medicine is that (a) we don’t receive much leadership training and (b) it is a skill set that can be improved upon and acquired." 

—Christopher O’Connor, MD, CEO for Inova Heart and Vascular Institute and former Chief of Cardiology at Duke in an NEJM Catalyst interview on what the mettle of medical leaders.