How To Structure the Medical Care Environment: The GHS Tricycle
Integral leadershipchallenges leaders to think beyond the limits of their authority. To go beyond the confines of their organizations. To build alliances with leaders from other organizations (even traditional competing organizations). To make one entity from many...
How Do We Fix the Medical Care Crisis?
This month, we anticipate the release of our book, Unbalanced: The Evolving Medical Crisis (Taylor, SM & Youkey JR.) written about America’s“Medical Care Crisis”as described byMontoriand others.Finished in May 2023, just before the release of theHarris Pollshowing...
Communication: The Opportunity for Hospitals to Make Patient Well-being A Priority
I was recently approached by a nurse friend working on the patient experience team at her hospital. She was upset aboutour postsatIntegral leaders in Health. How could we characterize the current situation, where corporate hospital, payor, doctor and university...
Patient Well-being Requires Doctor Autonomy
If America is experiencing a Medical Care Crisis where patient well-being has become subordinate to the corporate well-being of its functional components (hospitals, doctors, payors and universities/industry), what will it take to remedy the situation?We have...
Moral Duty and the Medical Care Crisis
What do I mean by moral duty?Moral duty is the obligation to act based on ethical principles when we see other people’s well-being in danger.That would, of course, include ourpatient’s well-being.Assuming we accept this -- whose obligation is it to act? Is it the...
Public Benefit Corporations: Does Corporate Structure Impact Patient Well-being?
In the Medical Care Crisis, we have observed that America has the most resourced medical care environment with the best doctors, hospitals, and universities/innovators in the world; yet paradoxically we have the highest patient dissatisfaction. Through our research,...
Autonomy: The Missing Ingredient in the Cure of the Medical Care Crisis
Autonomyis an interesting word.Most commonly,autonomyis defined as the condition of self-governance or self-regulation.Autonomyespecially rings true for Americans. It is like liberty -- the state of being free from societal restrictions on our way of life. Liberty can...
What Is Integral Leadership and How Will It Resolve the Medical Care Crisis?
The world needs integral leaders. Integral leaders align independent, even competing, organizations around a shared vision: creating a force capable of transformation – “making one from many for the service of all.”We have previously highlighted the paradoxical...
The ‘ABCs of the Medical Care Crisis’: A Closer Look
As I write this article, I anticipate the rollout of our new book entitledUnbalanced—The Evolving Medical Care Crisis(authored by me, Spence Taylor M.D., and Jerry Youkey M.D.) later this fall. The book examines what we believe is a crisis in medical care, where...
How to Take Control of Your Medical Destiny
This post is the third in an ongoing "CEO Article of The Week" original content series written by Integral Leaders in Health Founder and CEO,Spence Taylor, M.D.New articles on various topics related to our organization's purpose will be published each...