by Steve Berkowitz | Jan 2, 2017 | Physician Leadership
A common complaint that I hear from Chief Medical Officers is that they are required to attend too many meetings. Meetings seem to be a way of life for the executive. Even worse, meetings can develop a life of their own- one meeting seems to beget another one. ...
by Steve Berkowitz | Dec 5, 2016 | Physician Leadership
One more flight and I am home after a long couple days of meetings and traveling. I was looking forward to getting back to Austin in a little more than two hours. I was even upgraded to first class, so I was especially happy as we boarded the plane. I sat down and...
by Steve Berkowitz | Nov 23, 2016 | Physician Leadership
From a calling to a job… and maybe back to a calling Have we come full circle? I have written in the past about how the practice of medicine in my lifetime has gone from a calling to a profession to a job. When I was a medical student, most of us felt that becoming a...
by Steve Berkowitz | Oct 6, 2016 | Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration
We have certainly had our fill of evidence-based guidelines driven into us over the years. And slowly but surely, physicians and health care institutions are adopting best practices that are truly improving care. We are all becoming more “evidence-based”...
by Steve Berkowitz | May 20, 2016 | Physician Leadership
For every clinician, there will ultimately come a day that will bring “Bad News”. Perhaps your nurse tells you that patient you sent home from the office yesterday with non-specific chest symptoms died last night of a massive MI. Or if you are a surgeon...
by Steve Berkowitz | Mar 14, 2016 | Physician Leadership, The Future of Administration
I was talking to a CMO the other day and she mentioned to me that if only there were not so many distractions in the course of a day she would be able to get much more work done. She said that these distractions, many of them of questionable merit, kept getting in the...
