Taking the physician executive track, Part 5: Boulders and barriers

We began this series talking about “tribes.” As physicians, we belong to a very exclusive and circumscribed club of clinicians who inherently distrust anyone not a member of that tribe. In the hospital setting, this often plays out as “us” (the medical staff) versus “them” (the hospital administration). But you have been smitten by the possibility of a world beyond clinical medicine, and you feel as though you’re on the cusp of something new. You might think you’re imagining it, but as you move forward on this journey to a physician executive role, the chorus of comments from your clinical colleagues will likely seem to increase in frequency and intensity.

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