Comments on: Collaborative Confession http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-confession/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=collaborative-confession Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:40:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gary Levin M.D. http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-confession/#comment-97 Gary Levin M.D. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:06:14 +0000 http://healthcarecollaboration.com/?p=75#comment-97 Ken, I admire anyone who has melded their MD with management training and experience.... I have only come to appreciate the challenge to healthcare administrators in dealing with physicians. When an administrator has to inform physicians about 'bad news' it reminds me of 'shooting the messenger'.While most physicians work in a self imposed 'denial' process...they are fully committed to caring for the patient as an individual in front of them, face to face. They know that the microcosm of patient care often does not meld with the macrocosm of health care administration. Communications is key here, whether we collaborate, and collaboration does not always mean we agree. I am glad I found your blog, today. I find blogging to be very enlightening, and often I find I am encouraged by the commonality of our ideas. Ken, I admire anyone who has melded their MD with management training and experience…. I have only come to appreciate the challenge to healthcare administrators in dealing with physicians.
When an administrator has to inform physicians about ‘bad news’ it reminds me of ‘shooting the messenger’.While most physicians work in a self imposed ‘denial’ process…they are fully committed to caring for the patient as an individual in front of them, face to face.
They know that the microcosm of patient care often does not meld with the macrocosm of health care administration.

Communications is key here, whether we collaborate, and collaboration does not always mean we agree.

I am glad I found your blog, today. I find blogging to be very enlightening, and often I find I am encouraged by the commonality of our ideas.

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