We will never turn back the clock in medicine, nor do most of us really want that. There’s a logical, powerful evolution for how we practice medicine today, even those things causing the greatest dissatisfaction.
But we also can’t keep asking how to make some things incrementally better. That won’t lead to effective change that solves the real frontline challenges we’re facing today. We need more and better.
HALEE FISCHER-WRIGHT, who received her M.D. from the University of Colorado, is a nationally recognized physician leader, health care executive, and former business consultant, whose work focuses on innovation and creating cultures of excellence. Dr. Fischer-Wright is president and CEO of Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and is the co-author of Tribal Leadership, a New York Times bestseller.
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