Collaborative Attraction
Why am I blogging on vacation? Because it doesn’t get better than this. Sure, getting there was challenging: 7 hours in the air from Boston, followed by an hour in a rickety shuttle, but then I felt like I entered paradise when desert met ocean in Cabo, Mexico, on the Baja Peninsula looking east to the Sea of [...]
Tags: Attracting success, collaboration in healthcare, Getting It Done: Lifelines from the Field, Health Administration Press, Ignite Your Business: Transform Your World, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kelly O'Neil, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, law of attraction, Lee Kaiser, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
A Massachusetts Surgeon Weighs in on the Meaning of Scott Brown’s Senate Victory: Post 81
Warning to readers: This post, like a previous post, Gotcha: A surgeon dissects patient-centered care, contains more rant than reason. Those who feel passionately that Congress is doing a great job dealing with the people’s healthcare should look elsewhere for confirmation of their views. In An Interview with Stuart Altman, this distinguished healthcare economist mentioned Altman’s Law, that [...]
Tags: Atul Gawande, collaboration in healthcare, David Harlow, healthcare reform, Lee Kaiser, Scott Brown, Stuart Altman
Collaborative Wishes: Post 75
In residency, I learned that it is a sign of strength to admit ignorance and ask for help. While writing my latest column for the Journal of Healthcare Management on Innovation in the Face of Recession, I realized that little has been written recently on that subject in healthcare. So, I asked respected thought leaders what they were doing [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, healthcare reform, improving physician-hospital relations, Lee Kaiser, patient accountability, physician administrator communication, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
Collaborative Gnosticism
Last week, while I was teaching at the Estes Park Institute, I had the pleasure to listen to my friend and mentor, Lee Kaiser. Lee is a psychologist, futurist, and provocateur with a cherubic face, booming voice, and razor-sharp intellect. I make every effort to hear him speak because I find his insights centering and stimulating. [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, Lee Kaiser, physician-hospital relations
