Coaching Physicians: Part Two
We are offering several different perspectives on the coaching of physicians in this issue.
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On August 27, 2018
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The Coaching Tool Box:12 Steps to Emotionally Intelligent Healthcare
Patients’ emotions influence their quality and value ratings as well as what they tell their friends. High-emotion healthcare includes services related to major life events, some of which are at the top of the Holmes and Rahe scale of stressful life events that can contribute to illness. Fine-tuning the way healthcare services are delivered can make a big difference […]
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On August 24, 2018
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From Extraordinary Diagnostician to Extraordinary Leader
I look at some of my colleagues who have failed at weaving all the strands together – medical training, personal insight, becoming a leader
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On August 24, 2018
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Learning Non-Technical Skills Might Save a Patient’s Life
Human factors, leadership, and communication are the top three contributors to unexpected events in a healthcare setting that kill or harm patients.
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On July 12, 2018
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The Value of Presence in Medicine
I suspected she was in good hands. I was window dressing. I was doing what all physicians are often asked to do—to just be there, to help translate medical terms, to comfort the patient and her family.
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On July 12, 2018
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The Essential Difference Between Management in Medicine and Managing in Business
The problem is physician executives were landing in their posts for the same reason that physicians became department chairs in academic medicine – not because they were good at management, but because they were well-respected clinicians.
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On July 10, 2018
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Hard Cases: What Happens When a Medical Mistake Has an Unthinkable Outcome
We physicians live in a blame and shame world, a rigid hierarchy, one where Mistakes. Are. Not. Allowed.
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On July 10, 2018
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Coaching Physicians: Part One
Jack and I created A Whole New Doctor as an experiment with the strong hypothesis that providing coaches to medical students would make a difference in their lives (like providing coping skills and reducing pressures that lead to depression or learning how to engage in team leadership and mindset shifts).
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On March 28, 2018
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On Coaching and Self-Care
Coaching has allowed me the space to practice self-care. My conversations with my coach, Meredith Betz, allow me precious time to actively and audibly articulate my struggles and sentiments about the path of medical training.
- Posted by Emory Buck
- On March 28, 2018
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Talking Polarities: From Just Either/Or to Supplementing Either/Or with Both/And
Margaret Cary, MD MBA MPH PCC and Cliff Kayser, MSOD, MSHR, PCC “I’m so exhausted. I love my patients, but caring for them gets in the way of time with my family. I have young kids and I want to be there for them. My dad was always at work and I barely remember him. I […]
- Posted by Margaret Cary
- On March 28, 2018
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