As we have stressed in previous posts, a missing element to balancing medical care (making patient well-being the priority) seems to be the autonomous doctor. Autonomous doctors have a different perspective from non-clinicians and doctors employed by hospitals/...
As we have established previously, balancing medical care starts with having autonomous doctors. To be autonomous, doctors must think like CEOs –master leaderswho take responsibility for medical care. But, in the context of leadership and management, doctors are...
In the research that yielded our book,Unbalanced—The Evolving Medical Care Crisis, Dr. Youkey and I (Dr. Spence Taylor) discovered multiple examples where the concern for patient well-being was often secondary to the well-being of the various institutions supporting...
