COVID-19 is clearly creating significant change in how daily lives are pursued. The impacts on healthcare as an industry are profound and how physicians continue to provide patient care is being challenged. Those in group practices, as well as those within institutional environments, are all now faced with the prospect for how to develop new approaches in their professional pursuits. The changing environment in healthcare provides all physicians with a unique opportunity to develop and implement larger scales of change for the industry, as a result.
Dr. Peter Angood is president and CEO of the American Association for Physician Leadership, the only association solely focused on providing professional development, leadership education, and management training exclusively for physicians since its founding in 1975. In that role since 2012, he has continuously promoted the charge that at some level, all physicians are leaders.
The book is a frank dialogue and call to action on how all physicians can reach their fullest potential by becoming and remaining more engaged while inspiring engagement in others. It is also a clear-eyed look at the positive and trusted role physicians exercise in every sector of the healthcare industry.
Including chapters on wellness and burnout, patient safety, lifelong learning and the necessary personal and professional competencies for physicians, Dr. Angood's commentaries are uniquely astute and bold. He asserts that physicians remain the most trusted and dominant conduit for care and decision-making within the multidisciplinary sphere of healthcare and, further, with increasing demands for quality care and patient satisfaction, the physician leader is well-positioned and deserves an equitable say in shaping the future of the healthcare industry.
This book of personal reflections on healthcare and the state of the industry is precisely that: personal. Dr. Angood's goal is for the various chapters to spur personal reflection among physicians while instilling in them a renewed sense of privilege and commitment to the profession.
Table of ContentsAll Physicians are Leaders at Some Level
Physicians, Value and Compound Interest Benefits of a Physician-Led Organization
Demographics, Shifting Models and Physician Leadership
Competencies and Lifelong Learning
Safety, Transparency and Physician Leadership
Redefining a Value Equation with Physicians as Leaders
Adversity, Resilience and Persistence
Reflections on Evolving Change in Training of Physicians
Caring and Compassion vs. Physician Compensation
Metrics, Measurement and Patient Safety Reporting
Diversity, Inclusion and Physicians Need to Give
The Value of Volunteering
Violence, Safety and Physician Leadership
Clarion Call Elective, Urgent or Emergent?
Uncertainty, Ambiguity and DiSC A Contrast
Generations, Wisdom and a Hero s Journey
Crisis Management and Catastrophes Times for Learning?
Physicians Meeting the Challenge of Contrasting Ideologies
Patient-Centered Care Is it Really Disruptive?
Physicians and the Sense of Accomplishment
Telehealth Has Its Time Come?
Trust Professionalism, Altruism, Forbearance
Appreciation Where Does it Lead?
Medicine, Human Wellness and Ecology
We Know About Physician Burnout
What About Physician Happiness?
Bonus Special Report The Value of Physician Leadership
