As primary care physicians and other specialists spend less time practicing at the hospital in their community, their relationships with the...Read More »
Planning and meeting-management strategies are worthless if people don’t participate during meetings. Before and during meetings, leaders should tell attendees how they can be helpful. Sometimes, however, even the most experienced physician leaders encounter problems during meetings....
Medical errors can be devastating. For patients and their families, an error can be a life-altering or even fatal event. But for physicians and...Read More »
If you want to help a physician perform successfully in a medical staff leadership role, you must develop a written job description for that role...Read More »
Miscommunication is more than a problem in healthcare—it’s a massive patient risk that can cause real harm. A December 2021 report published in...Read More »
Ethical behavior refers to the choices you make when no one else is looking, whether at home, in public, or in the practice setting. Unfortunately...Read More »
With suicide rates among physicians far outpacing those in other professions, researchers at UC San Diego Health attempted to better understand...Read More »
Medical executive committee (MEC) meetings are the place to tackle the pressing questions that the events of the past several months have raised....Read More »
In its simplest form, collaboration means working with others as equals. This can be a struggle for physicians, as medical education has generally...Read More »