by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 10, 2017 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
I wrote a blog last January talking about the Consensus Trap and how a seemingly sound and preferred interactional process could yield unexpected and detrimental results. As I stated, consensus is a political agreement. It is not necessarily based upon the...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 6, 2017 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
I wrote this blog after some deep thought about President Trump’s speech, the future implications, and where we are going in health care: I listened to the State of the Union Address last night by President Trump not knowing quite what to expect. Was it going to be a...
by Steve Berkowitz | Feb 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
An unanticipated encounter between the Chief Medical Officer and a Physician Board Member Recently, a chief Medical Officer (CMO) of a large hospital told me about his Board having to resolve a conflict between the hospital CEO and some of the medical staff. ...
by Steve Berkowitz | Feb 9, 2017 | Health care reform, The Future of Administration
… maybe that’s just what the doctor ordered! How many times during the campaign did we hear the Republicans say “repeal and replace” Obamacare on Day One? I must admit, in the few weeks since the inauguration, I was fully expecting President Trump to sign some...
by Steve Berkowitz | Jan 30, 2017 | The Future of Administration
Almost every chief medical officer (CMO) that I work with in my advisory program has encountered at least one situation in the hospital every year that requires a significant intervention with a member of the medical staff. Whether the precipitating event is a...
