Perhaps traveling to our nation’s capital is hazardous to one’s health.  Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking before approximately 50 physicians in an executive MBA program in Washington.  I was impressed with their energy and eagerness to learn new approaches.  They gave me hope and made me proud to be a physician.  Three [...]

A sign in my office proclaims, “It’s never too late to change what you want to be when you grow up.”
The women in my family understand all too well that men can take decades longer than women to reach maturity.  Clearly, the song in Peter Pan, “I’ll never grow up,” became a classic because it [...]

I commend to your reading Dr. Kevin Pho’s op-ed piece in USA Today, Shortage of Primary Care Threatens US Health System.  Kevin points out that:

Primary care should be the backbone of our healthcare system
Fragmentation increases cost without increasing quality or safety
Since 1997, the number of US medical school graduates choosing primary care has declined 50%
As we [...]

As a class guest speaker last week for healthcare professionals studying for their Masters in Public Health, I was struck by the difference in opinion between the authors of the class readings on strategic planning and the physicians’ attitudes.  The readings talked about the steps in the strategic planning process and the time-tested nature of [...]

Nick Jacob’s blog post, So You Want to Be A CEO Part Eleven, resonated with me today as I covered general surgery in a rural Vermont hospital.
It was a typical Sunday morning, as I set out to make rounds on the medical-surgical floor, learning that a medical patient in the ICU with a previously tiny pneumothorax now [...]